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Cranial characters. — Skull rath(>r small, short, low, broad, and fiat, 

 with woU-dcvolopod postorbilal ptoccsses. Very similar in general 

 form to that of P. I. pacijicus, hut much smaller throughout; brain case 

 relatively smaller and less iiifhited ; nasals narrower and more attenuate 

 posteriorly; pterygoids shorter, less diverging posteriorly; maxillary 

 tooth rows shorter, the individual teeth much smaller. 



Measiircnicnts. — An adult from Beecher Bay, Vancouver Island: Hind foot 

 (dry skin), 112 mm. .SA-(///; Type: (ireatest length, 116; condylobasal length, 

 108.9; zygomatic breadth, 77.5; intcrorhital breadth, 25.4; least width of palatal 

 shelf, 16.5: maxillary tooth row (alveoli), 40.2; uj^per carnassial, crown length, 8.3, 

 crown width, 8.9. 



Remarks. — The Vancouver Island raccoon is a well-marked sub- 

 species. It requires close comparison only with P. I. pacijicus of the 

 adjacent mainland. 



Specimens exajnined. — Total number, 40, as follows: 



Vancouver Island, B. C: Alberni Valley (Hall's Ranch), 1; ^9 Beecher Bay, 3 (2 

 skulls without skins); "o Cadboro Bay, 1 (skull only); so Errington, 1 : ^« Fort 

 Rupert, 1 (skull only);" French Creek, 1; ^9 Little Qualicum River, 1 : 29 

 Mount Tolmie, 1 (skull only) ; ^o Parksville, 2:^9 Quatsino Sound (type 

 locality), 21 (skulls only); San Josef River Valley, 1 (skull only); Sooke, 2 

 (skulls only); s" Victoria, 1 (skull only); s" exact locality unknown, 3 (skulls 

 only). 30 



PROCYON LOTOR GRINNELLI Nelson and Goldman 



Baja California Raccoon 



Procyon lotor (irinnelli Nelson and Goldman, Jour, ^^'ashington Acad. Sci. 20 (5): 

 82, Mar. 4, 1930. 



Type locality. — La Paz, Baja California, Mexico. 



Tijpe. — No. 147181, male adult, skin and skull, United States 

 National Museum (Biological Surveys collection); collected by E. W. 

 Nelson and E. A. Goldman, February 15, 1906. 



Distribution. — Southern Baja California from the Cape region north 

 at least to San Ignacio. Tropical and Lower Sonoran Zones. 



General characters. — A large, pale subspecies with a rather broad, 

 high, evenly arched skull. Similar to P. I. pallidus of the Colorado 

 Desert, but slightly darker and cranial characters, especially the more 

 evenly arched profile of s'kull, distinctive. Compared with P. I. psora 

 of the Sacramento Valley, general color paler, more grayish, less 

 deeply sufTused with buff, the long black guard hairs over dorsimi less 

 in evidence; top of head grayer, less heavily mixed with black; black 

 areas at posterior base of ears smaller; skull with frontal region more 

 highly arched. 



2" Mus. Vert. Zool. 



3" Provincial Mus.. Briti.sli Columbia. 



31 AnuT. Mus. Xal. Uist. 



