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broad, flat frontal region, with prominent postorbital processes — 

 frontal region generally high and narrow, and postorbital processes 

 weak, or obsolescent, in forms east of Rocky Mountains. 

 Specimens examined. — Total number, 32, as follows: 



California: Parker Creek, Modoc County, l.^s 



Idaho: Bruneau, 1 (skull only); Emmett, Gem County, 1; Forest (Deer Creek), 

 1 (skin only) ; Hagerman, 4 (1 skull without skin) ; Lost Valley Reservoir, 

 head of Wieser River (altitude 5,000 feet) , Adams County, 1 (skin only) ; 

 Preuss Mountains, 1 (skull only) ; Stanley Lake, Custer County (altitude 

 8,500 feet), 1 (skin only); Three Creek, 2 (1 skin without skull; 1 skull without 

 skin). 



Nevada: Golconda, 1 (skull only) ; Montello, L 



Oregon: Adel, 2; Dry Creek, Malheur County, 1 (skull only); Enterprise, 1 

 (skin onh') ; Harper (8 miles east), 1 (skull only); Huntington, 1 (skull only); 

 Imnaha, 1 (skull only) ; Owyhee River (type locality, 10 miles west of Fairy- 

 lawn, Idaho), 2; Rome, 1; Tupper, 1 (skull only): Van.sycle, 1 (skull onh^. 



Washington: Alpowa, 1 (skull only); Garfield County, 1: Touchet, 1; Wallula, 1; 

 Washtucna, L 



PROCYOX LOTOR VANCOUVERENSIS Nelsox and Goldmax 



Vancouver Island Raccoox 



Procyon lotor vancouverensis Xelson and Goldman, Jour. Mammal. 11 (4): 458, 

 Nov. 11, 1930. 



Type local'dy. — Quatsino Sound, Vancouver Island, British Colum- 

 bia, Canada. Transition and Canadian Zones. 



Type. — Xo. 135457, male adult, skidl only. United States National 

 Museum (Biological Surveys collection); collected by Charles Sheldon, 

 November 1904. 



Distribution. — Known only from Vancouver Island. 



General characters.- — A dark subspecies most closely allied to P. I. 

 paclficus of Washington, but decidedly smaller, and cranial details 

 distinctive. 



Color. — An adult (winter pelage) from Beecher Bay, Vancouver 

 Island: Upper parts in general grayish, heavily overlaid with black; 

 small nape patch suft'used with ochraceous buff; top of head mixed 

 black and gray, the black predominating; face with brownish black 

 mask, the dark color extending down along middle of muzzle to nose ; 

 sides of muzzle, lips, and chin white; under parts, in general, thinly 

 overlaid with buff gray, the dense brown underfur showing through; 

 throat patch brownish, mixed with gray along median line; ears gray- 

 ish, with black patches at posterior base; limbs similar to under parts, 

 becoming soiled whitish on feet, but hind legs with unmixed, dark 

 brownish areas on outer sides above heels; tail with six narrow black 

 rings and a black tip, alternating with broader grayish rmgs, the black 

 rings interrupted on under side near base. 



2^ Mils. Vert. Zool. 



