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Specimens examined. — Total number, 127, as follows: 



Florida: Alleiihiirst, 1 (skull only); Aueilla River, 6 (skulls only); Black Point, 

 Dade County, 1 ; Blue Cypress Lake, Osceola County, 1 (skull only) ; Blue 

 Springs, 1 (skin only);" Buena Vista, 1 (skull only); Citronelle, 4; '^ Cutler, 

 Dade County, 9 (1 skull without skin);i< Englewood, Sarasota County, 1; 

 Enterjjriso, 1 (skin only);'* Fort Kissimmee, 18 (14 skulls without skins); 

 Gainesville, 3;'^ Hoinosassa, 1 (skull only); Kissimmee, 1; Kissimmee River, 

 1; Lake Cypress, 1; Lake Harney, 5 (1 skin without skull); Lake Hatch-ne- 

 haw, 15 (skulls only); Lake Kissimmee, 8 (7 skulls without skins); Lake 

 Monroe, 1; Matanzas Inlet, 1 (skull only); Miami, 1; Micco, 1 (skull only); 

 Naples, 3 (skulls only); New Berlin, 5; '^ Oak Lodge (type locality on penin- 

 sula opposite Micco), 2 (1 skull without skin) ; " Orlando, 1 (skin only) ;'^ Royal 

 Palm Hammock, 1 (skull only); San Mateo (5 miles northeast), 1 (skin only); 

 Saw Grass Island, Catfish Creek, Polk County, 12; Snapper Creek, Dade 

 County, 2; Tarpon Springs, 3 (2 skins without skulls; 1 skull without skin);'' 

 Taylor Creek, 2 (skins only);'^ Wilson, 1; Welaka, 1 (skin only)." 



Georgia: Fargo, 8 (5 skulls without skins) ; Okefenokee Swamp, 2 (1 skull without 

 skin). 



PROCYON LOTOR MARINUS Nelson 



Ten Thousand Islands Raccoon 



Procyon lotor marinvs Nelson, Smithsn. Misc. Collect. 82 (8): 7, July 10, 1930. 



Type locality. — Near Chokoloskee, Collier County, Fla. 



Type. — No. 254989, male adult, skin and skull, United States Na- 

 tional Museum; collected by E. W. Nelson, February 28, 1930. 



Distribution. — Keys of the Ten Thousand Islands Group, and ad- 

 joining mainland of southwestern Florida from Cape Sable north 

 through the Everglades to Lake Okeechobee (Ritta). Tropical Zone. 



General characters. — A very small subspecies with heavy dentition. 

 Not very imlike P. I. elucus and P. I. inesperatus in color, but smaller 

 than either, and cranial characters, especially the relatively larger 

 posterior upper premolar and carnassial, distinctive. Decidedly 

 darker than P. I. auspicatus or P. I. incautus and cranial characters 

 quite different. 



Color. — Similar to that of P. I. elucus, but somewhat grayer, especi- 

 ally on the head, the back usually less heavily overlaid with black; 

 rusty nape patch averaging less strongly marked, often obsolescent; 

 under parts and light rings on tail paler, less ochraceous buffy; black 

 mask more restricted. 



Cranial characters. — Skull much smaller and more delicately propor- 

 tioned than in P. I. elucus, frontal area much more depressed; brain 

 case more rounded; posterior upper premolar and carnassial relatively, 

 and sometimes actually, larger; palatal shelf about the same. Very 

 similar in geuer.'d form to that of P. I. inesperatus, but smaller, with 



'■• Mus. Comp. Zool. 



'5 Amer. Miis. Mat. Hisl. 



i« Four in Chicaso Mus. Nut. Hist.; oiio in Mu.s. Comp Zool. 



