ovr., 1899.1 MAMMALS. 107 
In February, 1884, C. H. Townsend caught one on McCloud River, 
about halfway between the mouth of the river and Mount Shasta; he 
also mentions a Pitt River miner who had a pair alive; and C. P. Streator 
reports it from old Fort Crook and Carberry Ranch. In September, 
1896, one of our collectors, KE. A. Preble, caught one in upper Rogue 
River Valley, near Prospect, Oregon. 
Procyon psora pacifica subsp. nov. Pacific Raccoon. 
Type from Kechelus Lake, Cascade Mountains, Washington. No. 93187, ad., U.S. 
Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Coll. Collected Jan. 15, 1898, by C. Hansen. 
Characters.—Coloration dark; ground color dark gray instead of 
buffy; tail rings continuous (not interrupted along median line below); 
last premolar, first molar, and audital bullie larger than in psora. 
Color.—Upperparts dark gray everywhere profusely mixed with 
and obscured by black hairs; underparts sooty-plumbeous sparingly 
sprinkled with long buffy whitish hairs; sooty collar under throat con- 
tinuous and much darker than in psora; black rings on tail continuous; 
pale rings, particularly the last one, obscured above by black hairs. 
Measurements.—Type (from dry skin): Total length, 940; tail verte- 
br, 310; hind foot, 115. 
Remarks.—This new raccoon is most typical in the northwest coast 
region, particularly about Puget Sound and along the basal slopes of 
the northern Cascades. Specimens from Pitt River and Little Shasta 
Valley are much nearer pacifica than psora. 
Raccoons do not occur on the higher slopes of Shasta, but are common 
aboutits base. In Little Shasta Valley W. H. Osgood and R. T, Fisher 
found them particularly abundant about the middle of September, and 
caught several in traps set under prune trees. The animals were caus- 
ing much annoyance to the fruit-raisers by uightly visits to the 
orchards, 
Ursus americanus Pallas. Black Bear. 
Abundant. When we reached Shasta the middle of July, black 
bears were exceedingly common throughout the Shasta fir forest. On 
July 17, in going from Wagon Camp to timberline, we saw fresh tracks 
of a dozen along Panther Creek, and on the way down, three hours 
later, saw where four had crossed our trail after we had goneup. Their 
well-worn trails abounded along Panther Creek and were traversed 
daily until about the cud of July, when, after our collectors had been 
shooting for nearly two weeks, the bears became alarmed and moved 
down into the inanzanita chaparral below the Shasta firs, where they 
remained the rest of the season. 
Ursus horribilis Ord. Grizzly or Grisly Bear. 
Formerly abundant in the Shasta region; now exceedingly rare or 
absent. W. H. Osgood was told when in Shasta Valley that a few 
years ago a huge grizzly known as ‘Old Clubfoot,’ which had been shot 
at repeatedly, was killed near Goose Nest Mountain, just north of 
Shasta. 
