392 Fret> Museum or Naturat History — Zootoey, Vor. XI. 
naked; feet plantigrade; upper carnassial with three cusps on outer 
margin; molars broad and tuberculate; palate extending back of last 
molar for about 14 distance to foramen magnum (more than ¥% inch 
in our species); a palatal spine present; bullae somewhat flattened and 
extending laterally in a tubular auditory meatus. 
Dental formula: I. ox Cc 
Skull of Raccoon (Procyon lotor). 
(About ¥ nat. size.) 
Procyon lotor (LInNzUvs). 
Raccoon. 
[Ursus] lotor LiINN&UuS, Syst. Nat., X ed., I, 1758, p. 48. 
Procyon lotor LAPHAM, Trans. Wis. State Agr. Soc., II, 1852 (1853), p. 338 (Wis- 
consin). KENNiIcoTT, Trans. Ill. State Agr. Soc., I, 1853-54 (1855), p. 578 
(Cook Co., Illinois). Jb., Agr. Rept. for 1858, U. S. Patent Office Rept., 1859, 
p. 254 (Illinois). ALLEN, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. pe XIII, 1869 (1871), p. 184 
(Iowa). StTRonG, Geol. Wis., Surv. 1873-79, I, 1883, p. 437 (Wisconsin). 
Herrick, Geol. & Nat. Hist. Surv. Minn., Bull. No. 7, 1892, p. 139, (Minne- 
sota). Ruoaps, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896 (1897), p. 197 (Ténnessee). 
SnypER, 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). Hann, 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 
