APPENDIX 



Descriptions of two subspecies that were not included in the Gold- 

 man manuscript are here abstracted or copied almost verbatim from 

 the original accounts of the respective authors, but as nearly as 

 possible in conformity of treatm(»nt with the Goldman manuscript. 



PROCYOX LUTOR MEGALODOUS Lowery 



Mississippi Delta Raccoon 



Procyon lotor »iegalodous Lowery, Occas. Papers jVIus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. 

 13: 225, November 22, 1943. 



Type locality. — Marsh Island, Iberia Parish, Louisiana. 



Type. — No. 2321, male adult, skin and skull, Louisiana State Univ. 

 Mus. Zool.; collected by Ted O'Neil and prepared by George H. 

 Lowery, Jr., October 24, 1943. 



Distribution. — Coast region of southern Louisiana from St. Bernard 

 Parish west to Cameron Parish. 



General characters. — A medium-sized raccoon in which the pelage is 

 strongly suffused above with black and pale yellow. Skull massive 

 and with extremely large molariform teeth, by which characters it is 

 separable from the two geographically adjacent subspecies P. I. variiis 

 and P. I. fuscipes. 



Color. — Nearest to P. I. varius, but distinguished in its much more 

 yellowish (less grayish) suffusion on upper parts and greater concen- 

 tration of black along mid-dorsal line; ears, pale areas of face, legs, 

 flanks and imder parts decidedly yellowish, not grayish as in P. I. varius. 

 Also much more yellowish (less grayish) than P. I. fuscipes, with black 

 of dorsal midline more pronounced. 



Cranial characters. — Skull differing from both P. I. varius: and 

 P. I. fuscipes in the larger size of the molariform teeth; also differing 

 from that of P. I. varius in its more inflated frontal region, and lesser 

 interorbital breadth. 



Measurements. — Type: Total length, 804 mm.; tail vertebrae, 262; hind foot, 

 128. Skull: None available except a long table of measurements of molariform 

 teeth (Lowery 1943, pp. 228-229). 



In his discussion of P. I. rnegalodous Lowery (1943) has made the 

 following comments : 



Remarks. — This new race of raccoon, which is an abundant inhabitant of the 

 Louisiana coastal marshes, is so clearly separable from all other races of Frocyon 



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