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1; Siielliiig, 3;" Soquel Mill (40 miles east of Rayinoiid), 1; South Yollo 

 Bolly Mountain, 1; Spalding, Eagle Lake, 3;-" Spenceville, l;^? Stockton, 

 14; -" Suisun Marsh, 1; " Tehama, I; Three Rivers, 1; Tower House, Shasta 

 County, 1; " Trinidad, 1; -" Union Island, 1; Vacaville, 1; 2" Victorville, 1; " 

 Wawona, 1 (skull only); Weaverville, 2 (skulls only); " Wheatland, 1; Willow 

 Lake, Plumas County, 1; ^^ Winthrop, 1 (skull only); Wolf, l.^? 

 Nevada: Wilson Canyon, cast slope of Sierra Nevada, 1. 



PROCYON LOTOR PACIFICUS Merriam 



Pacific Northwest Raccoon 



Procyon psora pacifica Merriam, North Amer. Fauna 16: 107, Oct. 28, 1899. 

 Procyon proteus Brass, Aus dem Reiche der Pelze, p. 564, 1911. West coast from 

 Puget Sound to the Cascade Mountains. (Not Procyon proteus Allen, 1904.) 



Type locality. — Lake Keecheliis, Kittitas County, Wash, (altitude 

 8,000 feet). 



Type. — No. 93137, adult [female], skin and skull, United States 

 National Museinn (Biological Surveys collection); collected by C 

 Hansen, January 15, 1898. 



DiHirihution. — Southwestern British Columbia, except Vancouver 

 Island, northern, central, and western Washington, western Oregon, 

 and extreme northwestern California. Upper Austral and Transition 

 Zones. 



General characters. — A dark subspecies with a relatively broad, flat 

 skull. Most closely resembling P. I. psora of the Sacramento Valley, 

 Calif., but darker; skull relatively shorter and broader. Similar to 

 P. I. excelsus of the Snake River Valley, southeastern Oregon, but much 

 smaller, darker, and cranial characters distinctive. Decidedly larger 

 than P. I. Vancouver ensis of Vancouver Island, and skidl differing in 

 detail. 



Color. — As in P. I. Vancouver ensis. Much as in P. I. psora, but darker, 

 the top of head and long guard hairs over upper parts in general more 

 extensively black; subapical light bands of hairs somewhat narrower, 

 tending to permit the basal color, which is of a darker tone (near dark 

 cinnamon brown), to show through; mask unmixed black continuous 

 across face and over upper surface of muzzle; rusty nuchal patch 

 usually absent or inconspicuous. 



Cranial characters. — Skull comparativel}^ short, broad and flat; 

 interorbital space very broad; postorbital processes of frontals well 

 developed. Resembling that of P. I. psora, but usually less elongated, 

 the brain case more fully expanded, especially anteroexternally ; inter- 

 orbital region broader. Similar to that of P. I. excelsus, but smaller, 

 with brain case more rounded. Very similar in general form to that 

 of P. I. Vancouver ensis, but much smaller throughout; brain case 



-' Mus. ViTt. Zool. 



