March 20, 1914 
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Vol. XXVII, pp. 63-68 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THK 
BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 
DKSCIUPTIONS OF THREE NEW RACCOONS FROM 
TUK ^MEXICAN BOUNDARY REGION. 
BY KJHIAB A. MEABNS. 
[L’liblislied by perniirisLon of the .Socretary of llie .Sniitlisoiiiaii Institution.] 
On reviewing' the material of the genus Proci/on collected by 
the author on the JNtexican Boundary Line and comparing it 
with that in the United States National Museum, three apjia- 
rently new forms have been distinguished, which are described 
below. 
Procyon lotor fuscipes subsp. iiov. 
J'.ROWN-FOOTED RACCOON. 
Typc-spechneti. —Adult male, Cat. No. G3055, U. S. Nat. Mus.; col¬ 
lected on Las IMoras Creek, at Fort Clark, Kinney County, Texas (alti¬ 
tude SOS meters or 1011 feet), February 0, 1893, by Edgar A. Mearus. 
(Original number, 2273.) 
Characters.—h-Arge^t of the raccoons; in color closely resembling Pro- 
cyon lotor lotor (Limnueus), but usually with six instead of live distinct 
blackish tail rings; feet dark brown instead of whitish; white on con¬ 
vexity of ear occupying only the apical half instead of nearly all of the 
outer surface; blackish mask expanded so as to cover all of the face 
and extending from the nasal pad well upon the forehead in the median 
line; sknll elongate, compressed postorhitally, with slender lengthened 
rostrum; bony ])alate narrow, with lateral rows of teeth nearly paiallel, 
interpterygoid notcli narrow and deep; andital hnll;e long and fiattened 
externally. 
Color (based on adult male tyi)e). —Fi'pcrparts from napci to tail, pale 
gray, everywhere darkened l>y black tips to the long hairs, but darkest 
hi the vertebral area posteriorly; nape washed with rust color, of which 
a slight trace is carried backward across the interscainilar region, where, 
|.jQ^y0Y0j.^ 2 ^ 23 much less distinct than in I rocyaii lotoi lofoi y lilack mask 
solid and continnons across the lac(' and along the side' ol the lunid to a 
point below the ear and also (‘xtending forward as a median band to tlu‘ 
naked nasal pad and backward to the grizzle.l black crown; area border- 
12—I’F.OC. Run.. Soc. W.\SH., Vob. XNVII, 1911. ('») 
