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and western Mexico, especially rocky localities, such as dry river 

 bottoms, canons, broken hills, and ridges. Nocturnal in habits, 

 hunting cat-like for rodents and large insects. Fruit furnishes its 

 main food in the wet season, especially wild figs and the coporno 

 balls. It is a good climber and readily escapes from dogs when it is 

 followed.";. H. B. 



36. Procyon hernandezii hernandezii Wagler. 



Five specimens, 3 males, i female: Arroyo de Plantanar, Jalisco, 

 i specimen, Feb. 19; Garabatos, 2 specimens, March 22, 26; Las 

 Canoas, 2 specimens, Aug. 4, 9. 



These specimens are all fully adult, with worn teeth. They aver- 

 age, on account of greater age, slightly larger than the Sinaloa series 

 (see antea, p. 226), the skulls of the 3 males measuring, total length, 

 122.7 (119-125), zygomatic breadth, 77.5 (76-79). The collector's 

 external measurements of the 3 males are: Total length, 852.5 

 (826-883); head and body, 541 (508-559); tail vertebrae, 311.5 (299- 

 324); hind foot without claws, 118 (112-126); ear from notch, 64 

 (57-65). The female is slightly smaller than the smallest of the 

 four males. 



37. Nasua narica narica (Linn.). 



Fifty -four specimens, collected as follows: Arroyo de Plantanar, 3 

 specimens, Jan. 22, Feb. 20, 22; Rio Sta. Maria, 4 specimens, Feb. 

 2, 3, 9; Ojo de Agua, near Amatlan, Tepic, 5 specimens, Feb. 12, 13, 

 15; Estancia, n specimens, Feb. i, 22, March 3-11; La Cienega, 

 i specimen, April 17; Wakenakili Mountains, i specimen, May 7; 

 Sal se Puerdes, 8 specimens, May 7-11; Los Masos, 5 specimens. 

 Also 17 specimens, without data other than the collector's numbers 

 (his corresponding notes are not now available), but they are from 

 the same localities as the others collected in northwestern Jalisco, 

 and mostly from quite near the Tepic boundary. 



This series of specimens is comparable as to season with the Escui- 

 napa February-May series. They present the same wide range of 

 individual variation in coloration (see antea, pp. 229-231), but are on 

 the whole rather darker and richer in color, with a larger proportion 

 of specimens with the head, nape, and shoulders deep ochraceous. 1 

 They also average considerably smaller in external measurements, 

 and slightly smaller in cranial measurements, with very slightly 



1 The Los Masos specimens, however, are all dark, with the top of the head, nape, and 

 shoulders dark brown. 



