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naked; feet plantigrade; upper carnassial with three cusps on outer 

 margin; molars broad and tuberculate; palate extending back of last 

 molar for about >^ distance to foramen magnum (more than y^ inch 

 in our species) ; a palatal spine present ; bullae somewhat flattened and 

 extending laterally in a tubular auditory meatus. 



Denial formula: I. ^^, C. ^^, Pm. ^~^, M. ^^ = 40. 

 ?>-?> i-i 4-4 2-2 



Skull of Raccoon (Procyon lotor ) . 

 (^ About }4 nat. size.) 



Procyon lotor (Linn^us). 

 Raccoon. 



[Ursus] lotor Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., X ed., I, 1758, p. 48. 



Procyon lotor Lapham, Trans. Wis. State Agr. Soc, II, 1852 (1853), p. 338 (Wis- 

 consin). Kennicott, Trans. 111. State Agr. Soc, I, 1853-54 (1855), p. 578 

 (Cook Co., Illinois). lb., Agr. Rept. for 1858, U. S. Patent Office Rept., 1859, 

 p. 254 (Illinois). Allen, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XIII, 1869 (1871), p. 184 

 (Iowa). Strong, Geol. Wis., Surv. 1873-79, I. 1883, p. 437 (Wisconsin). 

 Herrick, Geol. & Nat. Hist. Surv. Minn., Bull. No. 7, 1892, p. 139 (Minne- 

 sota). Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896 (1897), p. 197 (Tennessee). 

 Snyder, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, II, 1902, p. 122 (Wisconsin). Jackson, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XX, 1907, p. 74 (S. W. Missouri). Jackson, Bull. 

 Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, VI, 1908, p. 29 (Wisconsin). Hahn, Ann. Rept. Dept. 

 Geol. & Nat. Resources Ind., 1908 (1909), p. 598 (Indiana). 



Type locality — Eastern United States. 



Distribution — Whole of the United States east of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains (except in Florida) and north to southern Ontario and Mani- 

 toba; replaced in Florida by a slightly different form. 



Description — Snout pointed ; hair thick ; general color grayish or 

 yellowish gray, the middle of the back blackish; face whitish, with 

 a black patch on cheek, which includes the eye, and a blackish line 



