THE BAHAMA ISLANDS 37? 



LXIII, Figs. 1-2.) Its measurements are: Total length, 713; tail vertebra;, 

 240; hind foot, 100 (95) ; skull, greatest length, 107; basal length, 99; basilar 

 length, 94; length of palate (median), 61; width of palate between middle of 

 carnassials, 18.6 ; length of palatine extension behind molars (to tip of ham- 

 ular), 26; least width of palatine extension, 12.6; zygomatic breadth, 69; 

 least interorbital breadth, 22; breadth of braincase above roots of zygomata, 

 44.6; mastoid breadth, 54; mandible, 75; maxillary toothrow to front of 

 canine (alveoli), 38.6; crown of first upper molar, 7.8 x 8.8; mandibular tooth- 

 row to front of canine (alveoli), 45.2; crown of first lower molar, 9x6. 

 (Specimen number 121,905.) 



Though undoubtedly introduced from the mainland this animal is unlike 

 any raccoon with which I have been able to compare it. In general it resembles 

 Procyon pygmceus Merriam (Plate LXIV, Figs. 1-2), but it is not as dimin- 

 utive; its teeth, particularly the posterior lower molar, are not as small, and its 

 color differs from that of the Cozumel animal in the conspicuously whitish 

 muzzle, less gray occiput, and less dark gular area back of the whitish chin. 

 The audital bullae are much larger than in P. pygmceus Merriam, and their 

 outer ventral surface is nearly flat instead of deeply concave. The comparative 

 size of Procyon maynardi, from Nassau, P. pygmceus Merriam, from Cozumel, 

 and 'P. lotor clucus Bangs, from Florida is shown by the photographs of 

 skulls reproduced on Plates LXII-LXIV. 



Mr. Maynard gives the following account of his experience with this 

 animal : " As early as 1884, I was aware that there was a Eaccoon on New Prov- 

 idence, and that year obtained a flat skin of the species; but it was not until 

 1897, that I succeeded in obtaining an entire specimen. About June 1, of this 

 year, a living female Kaccoon was brought to me by a man who had captured 

 her in the pine woods on the south shore of New Providence. The animal 

 had been injured on the head, having evidently been stunned by a blow, and 

 probably as a consequence of this blow did not eat anything for a week. After 

 this she slowly recovered and soon ate readily. She appeared uneasy in cap- 

 tivity and was always trying to climb to some elevated place, and at length 

 escaped. She was recaptured, however, by some one, and I recovered her in 

 about a week. On June 16, she appeared even more uneasy, but was rather less 

 wild, even permitting me to handle her. The next morning I found a single 

 young one with her in her box. This was a female entirely naked, with the 

 exception of a little fine hair on the back, which was of a reddish color. Al- 

 though of course of a different form, the little animal was about the size of a 



