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Fischer, Gotthelf. 



1814. Zoognosia Tabulis Synopticis. Vol. 3, 732 pp. 



Description of Procyon annulatus {=Procyon lotor), p. 177. 



Flower, Stanley Smyth. 



1931. Contributions to our knowledge of the duration of life in vertebrate 

 animals. V. Mammals. Zool. Soc. London. Proc. 1931 (pt. 1) : 

 145-234. 



The longevity of the raccoon in captivity, p. 177. 



FoRBUSH, Edward Howe. 



1916. The natural enemies of })irds. Massachusetts Board Agr. Bull. 



No. 3, pp. 24-25. 



Consideration of the raccoon in relation to birds. 



Frantzius, a. von. 



1881. Los mamiferos de Costa Rica. Colecion de documentos para la 

 historia de Costa Rica publicados por el Don Leon Fernandez. 442 pp. 

 Raccoon, p. 412. 



Frye, O. Earl, and Daniel W. Lay. 



1943. Fur resources and fur animals of Texas. Texas Game, Fish, and 

 Oyster Comm. BuU. No. 25: 18-19. 

 Gander, Frank Forrest. 



1928. Period of gestation in some .\merican mammals. .Jour. Mammal. 

 9 (1): 75. February 9. 



Records the period of gestation in a raccoon under observation. 



Garman, H, 



1894. A preliminary list of the vertebrate animals of Kentucky. Essex 

 Inst. Bull. 26 (1-3): 4. 



The raccoon as an enemy of bird life. 



Gaumer, George Franklin. 



1917. Monografia de los mamiferos de Yucatan. Pub. by Secretaria de 



Fomento, D. F. Mexico. 331 pp. 



Notes on the raccoon of Yucatan, pp. 210-215. 



Geoffroy-Saint Hilaire, Isidore. ' 



1855. Voyage sur la Venus. Zoologie. 355 pp., illus. 



Description of "Procyon lotor variete mcxicaine, " from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, pi). 125-132, 

 pi. VI. 



Geoffroy-Saint Hilaire, Isidore, and G. Cuvier. 



1795. Memoire sur une nouvelle division des mammiferes, et sur les principles 

 ciui doivent servir de base dans cette sorte de travail. Mag. Encyc. 

 2: 164-190. 

 Gidley, James Williams. 



1906. A fossil raccoon from a California Pleistocene cave deposit. U. S. 

 Natl. Mus. Proc. 19: 553-554, illus. 



Original description of Procyon simus, p. 553. SimUar in size to P. I. eicelsus, but molari- 

 form tooth rows more strongly curved outward near middle; crowni of first upper premolar 

 with outer side sloping inward posteriorly, instead of nearly parallel to antero-posterior 

 axis of sliUll; posterior lower molar with a distinctly broader cusp, or 'lieel." 



Gill, Theodore N. 



1872. Letter on the alleged hybrid between a raccoon and cat. Amer. 

 Nat. 6: 53-55. January. 



