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crown brownish black, mixed with grayish white; nape and between 

 shoulders tinged with clay color; upperparts grayish white, long hairs 

 black-tipped; lower lip white; underparts white, under fur showing; 

 throat sepia; fore limbs soiled grayish white; hind limbs and feet 

 grayish white, dark under fur showing; above heel brownish black; 

 tail above soiled grayish white with six dark rings and black tip, 

 beneath the rings are practically obsolete; ears "white, black at base. 

 Ex type in United States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 810; tail, 312; hind foot, 112. 

 Skull: Occipito-nasial length, 104.4; Hensel, 102.5; zygomatic width 

 75; intertemporal wdth, 25; width of braincase, 55; length of nasals,, 

 32.2; length of upper molar series, 36; length of mandible, 84; length 

 of lower molar series, 40.3. Ex type in United States National 

 Museum. 



Genus l Euprocyon. 



Euprocyon Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, p. 705. Type 

 Ursus cancrivorus Cuvier. 



"Tail slender, eight or nine-ringed. Forehead of skull flat, in a 

 line with the nose; braincase swollen, palate only shortly produced, 

 and broad behind; grinders large." The carnassial has the com- 

 missure of the median outer cusp, and also the postero-internal cusp 

 absent; third upper incisor lacks the usual short independent cusp; 

 palate behind last molars only one-fourth the total length; molari- 

 form cusps short, powerful; claws blunt. 



Euprocyon cancrivorus panamensis Goldm. 



Euprocyon cancrivorus panamensis Goldm., Smith. Misc. Coll. LX, 

 1913, No. 22, p. 15. 



Type locality. Gatun, Canal Zone, Panama. 



Genl. Char. Similar to E. cancrivorus, but darker; facial line 

 longer. 



Color. Top of head grizzled black and gray; sides of rostrum and 

 supraorbital streaks whitish; face and lower part of cheeks black; 

 upperparts black and ochraceous-buff, black predominating; lips, 

 chin and throat grayish white ; underparts pale ochraceous-buff ; outer 

 side of limbs black; feet brownish; tail with seven or eight black and 

 grayish alternating rings, tip black; ears yellowish. Ex type in United 

 States National Museum. 



Measurements. Total length, 950; tail, 350; hind foot, 142. 

 Skull: Occipito-nasal length, 130; Hensel, 114.9; zygomatic width, 



1 Employed as a subgenus in Check-List, p. 402. 



