u 
GENUS PROCYON.— Storr. 
DENTAL FORMULA. 
Incisive - ; Canine — ; Molar — - = 40. 
6 1—1 6-6 
Muzzle, pointed and projecting beyond the lower jaw ; ears, short and 
oval ; tail, bushy, and long. Feet, five toed, with strong nails not retrac- 
tile ; soles of feet, (posterior,) naked ; the species rest on the heel, but 
walk on the toes. Mamm®, six ventral ; there is a gland on each side of 
the anus which secretes a slightly offensive fluid. 
The generic name is derived from the Greek is-fo, before, and xvm, a 
dog. 
Two species only have been noticed : one in the northern, and the other 
in the southern parts of North America. 
PEOCYON LOTOE.— Linn. 
Raccoon. 
PLATE LXI. — Male. Natural Size. 
P. corpore supra canescente plus minus in nigrum vergente, infra, au- 
riculis pedibusque albicantibus ; facie albida, fascia sub oculari obliqua 
nigra, cauda rufescente annulis 4-5 nigris. 
characters. 
Body above, grayish mixed with black ; ears, and beneath, whitish ; a 
black patch across the eye. Tail with 4 or 5 annulations of black and gray. 
SYNONYMES. 
Aeecon, Smith’s Voyages, xiii., p. 31. 
Ursds Lotor, Linn., 12th ed., p. 70. 
“ “ Erxleben, Syst., p. 165-4. 
“ “ Sohreher Saugth., p. 521, 5 t. 143. 
Le Raton, Buffon, vol. viii., p. p. 337, t. xliii. 
