3cS XOHTll AMKHICAX FAUNA 60, FISH AND WILDLIFK SKiniCE 



gradation is evident, but in the sum of characters presented these 

 widely ran»2;ing forms are quite distinct. 



Specimens examined. — Total luunher, 61, as follows: 

 Colorado: Arkins, 1 (skull only); Cherry Creek, Arapahoe Covuity, 2 (1 skull 



witliout skin); Estelene, 1; Las Animas, 1; Loveland, 1; Tuttle, 1; Wray, 4 



(1 skin without skull; 3 skulls without skins). 

 Illinois: Chicago (Jackson Park), 1; Henderson County, I; Joliet, 1 (skin only). 

 Iowa: Keosanqua State Park, Van Buren County, 1.* 

 Kansas: Manhattan, 1 (skull only). 

 Minnesota: Beltrami County, 1; Elk River (type locality), 13 (6 skulls without 



skins). 

 Missouri: Independence, 1 (skull only); Marble Cave, 1 (skull only). 

 Nebraska: Beemer, 2 (skulls only); Haigler, 1 (skull only); Johnstown, 1 (skull 



only); Republican Fork, Platte River, 1 (skull only); Valentine, 1 (skull 



only); without exact locality, 1 (skull only). 

 New Mexico: Bear Canyon, Raton Range, 1 (skull only); Raton Range (mouth 



of Trinchera Pass), 1. 

 North Dakota: Fargo, 1; Grafton, 1 (skull only); Townier, 1. 

 Oklahoma: Fort Cobb, 1 (skull only); Frederick ("20 miles from"), 1 (skin 



only); Mount Scott, 4 (1 skull withovit skin); Redfork, 1 (skin only). 

 Texas: Canadian, 1 (skull only). 

 Wisconsin: Delavan, 6 (5 skulls without skins); Okee, 1 (skull only); without 



exact locality, 1 (skull only). 

 Wyoming: New Haven, 1. 



PROCYON LOTOR V ART US Nelson and Goldman 

 Al.\b.\ma Raccoon 

 Procyon lotor vnriuf! Nelson and Cioldnian, Jour. Mammal. 11 (4): 456, Nov. 11, 

 1930. 



Type locality. — Castleberiy, Conecuh County, Ala. 



Type. — No. 158246, female adult, skin and skull, United States 

 National Museum (Biological Surveys collection) ; collected by A. H. 

 Howell, October 10, 1908. 



Distribution. — Extreme southwestern Kentucky, Tennessee, Missis- 

 sippi, northern Louisiana, Alabama, northwestern Florida, and western 

 Georgia. Mainly Lower Austral Zone. 



General characters. — A small subspecies most closely resembling 

 Procyon lotor lotor, but smaller, usuallj^ paler, pelage much shorter, 

 and skull differing in detail. Differing from P. I. elucus of Florida in 

 paler color, rather decidedly small(M- size, and in cranial features. 

 Similar to P. I. fuscipes of Texas in color, but much smaller, with a 

 dift'erent skull. 



Color. — UppcM- parts in general light bufty grayish, with a light 

 ochraceous buffy suffusion along median dorsal area, becoming more 

 intense on nape and shoulders, thinly overlaid with black; sides 

 clearer gray, the black-tipped hairs of dorsinn thinning out; top of 

 head mixed brownish black and gray; facial mask brownish black, 



'Iowa State College. 



