RACCOONS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 79 



PROCYON GLOVERALLENI Nelson and Goldman 

 Barbados Raccoon 



Proci/on glnvernUeni Nelson and Goldman, Jour. Mammal. 11 (4): 453, Nov. 11, 

 1930. 



Type locality. — Island of Barbados, Lesser Antilles, West Indies. 



Type. — No. 18591, young male, skin and skull, Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology; collected by Sir Francis Watts, 1920. 



Distribution. — Known only from the Island of Barbados. Tropical 

 Zone. 



General characters. — A small, dark species, with a short, delicately 

 formed skull. Similar in color to Procyon minor, of Guadeloupe 

 Island, Lesser Antilles, but sides of body and limbs in type specimen 

 darker, owing to more numerous black-tipped hairs (black-tipped 

 hairs thinning out and sides of body and limbs more grayish in minor) ; 

 cranial characters, especially the much heavier dentition, distinctive. 

 Contrasting with P. maynardi, of New Providence Island, Bahamas, in 

 darker general color and widely different skull. 



Color.- — Type: Upper parts in general near "light ochraceous buff" 

 (most intense on nape and shoulders) rather heavily overlaid with 

 black, becoming lighter buff, less obscured by black on sides of body 

 and limbs; top of head buffy gray, mixed with black; face with solid 

 black mask and usual white markings; the upper surface of muzzle 

 black to nose; sides of muzzle, lips, and chin white; under parts thinly 

 overlaid with buffy grayish; throat patch brownish black, thinly 

 overlapped by ochraceous buffy hairs, here reversed as usual in the 

 group; ears buffy grayish with black patches at posterior base; 

 ankles dusky all around; feet soiled buffy whitish; tail with four 

 narrow black rings and a black tip alternating with light ochraceous 

 })uffy rings, the subterminal black ring and tip nearly coalescent. 



Cranial characters. — Skull similar in general to that of P. minor, 

 ])ut frontal region broader and flatter; postorbital processes more 

 prominent; palatal shelf narrower; teeth very similar in sculpture, 

 but crown of upper carnassial tending to be longer than broad, a 

 condition unusual in the group. Compared with that of P. maynardi 

 the skull dift"ers in about the same characters as from minor, except 

 that the palatal shelf is decidedly broader. 



Measurements.- — Type: Hind foot (dry skin), 89 mm. Skull: Type: Greatest 

 length, 94; condylobasal length, 89.2; zygomatic breadth, 53.4; interorbital 

 breadth, 18.7; least width of palatal shelf, 13.6; maxillary tooth row (alveoli), 

 37; upper carnassial, crown length, 9.8, crown width, 9. Two adult topotypes, 

 No. 267380, female, and No. 267381, sex undetermined, United States National 

 Museum, respectively: Greatest length, 113.2, 109.8; condylobasal length, — , 105.3; 

 zygomatic breadth, — , 69; interorbital breadth, 24.3, 24.3; least width of palatal 

 shelf, 15, 14.4; maxillary tooth row, 40, 39.8; upper carnassial, crown length, 

 8.6, 8.7, crown width, 8.9, 8.6. 



