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U. 8. P. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYSZOOLOGY GENERAL REPORT. 



The preceding measurements of Nos. A, B, C, and 1067, were taken from dried skins ; of 1149 

 from a skin in alcohol ; No. 307 was measured while fresh, before skinning, and may be con 

 sidered as expressing the true proportions. No. 1149 in several respects differs from the others . 

 and in size, proportions, brown color of feet, approaches nearer to the P. hernandezii, which, 

 possibly, it may prove to be. 



List of specimens. 



PROCYON HERNANDEZII, Wagler. 



Black-footed Raccoon. 



Procyon hernandezii, WAGLER, Isis, XXIV, 1831, 514. 



WIEGMANN, in Archiv, III, i, 1837, 367. IB. Annals and Mag. N. H. I, 1838, 133. 

 WAGNER, Suppl. Schreber, II, 1841, 157; also in Sclircber Saiugt. Ill, pi. cxliii, A, (interpolated.) 

 ? Procyon nivea, GRAY, Charlesw. Mag. N. H. I, 1837, 580. (Albino.) 

 " Tepe Maxtlaton, HERN. Thes. 9." 



Quid Procyon psora, GRAY, Annals and Mag. N. H. X, 1842, 261, (Sacramento river.) IB. Zool. Sulphur, 1844, 

 32; pi. xi, (animal,) pi. xvii, f. 1, 2, 3, (skull). 



Sp. CH. Larger than P. lotor. General color grayish white, with a tinge of yellowish ; long hairs tipped with black. Under 

 fur dark brown, A large oblique black patch on the side of the face continuous with a paler one under the chin. Sides and 

 under part of the muzzle, posterior margin of the cheek patch, and the ear, whitish. Tail tapering to tip, with five or six 

 annuli and the tip black ; the annuli half as wide only as the rusty whitish interspaces. Hind feet exceeding four inches ; the 

 upper surface mostly dark brown. Naked part of the soles three inches. 



Varies in lighter colors and substitution of rusty brown or chestnut for the. black tints. 



In general appearance, this species closely resembles P. totor, and its characteristics are more 

 comparative than absolute. In size, it somewhat exceeds the lotor. The general color is a pale 

 yellowish gray above and on the sides, (yellowest on the nape,) overlaid with black tips to the 

 hairs. There is a dark brown stripe from the muffle along the top of the snout, lost in the 

 forehead ; on each side of the face is a well defined large patch of black which passes obliquely 

 from the stripe just mentioned over the eye, and runs off to an angle behind the commissure of 

 the mouth. The eye is situated half its diameter within the posterior edge of the patch, the 

 anterior edge of which is about midway between the posterior edge and the end of the snout. 

 There is a broad bar under the chin, forming the continuation of the cheek patches, and the 

 portions anterior to these marks being white, the effect is as if a black muzzle had been immersed 



