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Seton, Ernest Thompson. 



1929. Lives of game animals. Bears, coons, badgers, skunks, and weasels. 

 Vol. 2 (pt. I), 367 pp., illuR. 



Includes an illustrated account of the raccoon, pp. 230-256. 



Sherman, H. B. 



1936. A list of the recent land mammals of Florida. Florida Acad. Sci. 

 Proc. 1: no. 

 Shir.\s, George, 3d. 



1920. A raccoon explores new country. Forest and Stream 90 (1) : 10, 11, 44. 

 January. 

 Shufeldt, Robert Wilson. 



1915. On the taxonomy of the Procyonidae. Science (n. s.) 41 (1062): 691- 

 692. May 7. 



A superfamily Procyonidea is divided into two families — the Procyonidae and tlie Poto- 

 sidae, with the former divided into three subfamilies. 



Simpson, George Gaylord. 



1929. Pleistocene mammalian fauna of the Seminole Field, Pinellas County, 



Florida. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Bull. 56 (art. 8): 561-599. Feb- 

 ruary 12. 



Original description of Procyon nanus, p. 575, which differed conspicuously from living 

 species of the region in greater length in proportion to width of first upper molar. 



Sloane, Hans. 



1725. A voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Xieves, St. Christophers, 

 and Jamaica with the natural history of the herbs and trees, four- 

 footed beasts, insects, reptiles, etc., of the last of these Islands. Vol. 

 2, 499 pp., illus. 

 Records the raccoons (apparently erroneously) in Jamaica, p. 329. 



Smith, Charles Hamilton. 



1848. Introduction to Mammalia. Jardine's Naturalist's Librarj' 15: 17- 

 313, illus. 

 Description of Procyon gularis { = P.l. lotor), p. 222, based on a live specimen "in the State 

 of New York," and of P. cancrivorus, p. 223. 



Smith, Captain [John]. 



1612. A map of Virginia. With a description of the country, the commodi- 

 ties, people, government, and religion. 109 pp. 



Contains the earliest reference to the raccoon found in literature. The animal is recorded 

 under the name aroughcun. |). 13. 



Smith, Ronald Ward. 



1940. The land mammals of Nova Scotia. Amer. Midland Nat. 24 (1): 



225. July. 

 Snyder, L. L. 



1930. A faunal investigation of King Township, York County, Ontario. 



Trans. Ro^-al Canadian Inst. 17 (pt. 2): 175. 



1941. The mammals of Prince Edward County, Ontario. Univ. Toronto 



Studies, Biol. Ser. No. 48, p. 21. 

 Snyder, L. L., and E. B. S. Logier. 



1931. A faunal investigation of Long Point and /icinity, Norfolk County, 



Ontario. Trans. Royal Canadian Inst. 18 (pt. 1) 39: 131. 



