J^ fear ns—Desrriptimis of TJiroe Neiv Racroons. 
05 
(ID) miles) east of tlie (’olorado Rivce’, altitude dliO meters (]]<S1 feet), 
Sonora, Mexico, February 7, I.S‘)4, by l']d<)far A. Mearns. (()ri<>;iiial muid)er, 
2937.) 
Characters. —Skull and teetli indistin^uisbable from those of Procyon 
lotor mexicanus (Ibiird)* of similar a^e; color j)aler, more ocbraceous, 
and with less black than in any otlier known form of Procyon; pela^ci ex¬ 
tremely long and soft. 
Color (based on the male type in winter coat).—I5>p(^rj)arts, from na])e 
to tail, strongly tinged with butl'; longest hairs narrowly tipped with drab- 
brown on thoracic region and sides, witli much broader tips of brownish 
black in median lumbar and lower thoracic regions; nnderfur of dorsum 
light mouse gray at base, shading to mouse gray apically; face mask of 
the usual pattern, (unnamon-drab on upper side of muzzle, deepening to 
fusi^ous around and below eye, then i)aling to l)enzo brown on side of face 
l)Osteriorly ; sides of muzzle and its under surface white, this color extend¬ 
ing broadly around angle of month and occui)ying the whole of the lower 
jaw; crown whitish anteriorly, next to the dark face mask, rapidly deep¬ 
ening to pallid purjilish gray posteriorly, with the dense underfur drab; 
ears and whiskers entirely pure white; no blackish area on side of crown 
at base of ear; fore and hind limbs soiled, slightly yellowish, gray exter¬ 
nally, grayish white internally; hands and feet clayey white ; long over¬ 
hair of underparts and inner surface of limbs grayish white, and so sparse 
that the light drab underfur everywhere shows through, imparting the 
general color to the under{)arts; tail yellowish white above, with five 
rings, of mixed brownish and yellowish long hairs, which become obsolete 
on the under surface; underfur of tail very ])ale drab alawe, and whitish 
drab below; nnderfur on throat light cinnamon-drah ; naked parts of feet 
purplish black ; claws horn color, or brownish on median upper surface. 
Measurements of type (external measurements taken from the fresh speci¬ 
men by the author).—Total length, 750 mm., tail vertebra?, 310; pencil, 
55; ear from crown, 47; maims, including claw, 00 ; jies, including claw, 
115 ; longest whisker, 113 ; longest hairs on dorsum, 78. Skull and teeth ; 
condylohasal length, 108; zygomatic breadth, 73; breadth of hraincase, 
54; iiostorhital constriction, 27; interorhital constriction, 23.5; rostral 
breadth over canines, 2(); least rostral breadth, 24.5; from po.sterior 
border of middle incisor to interpterygoid notch, 05; from last point 
to foramen magnum, 34; length of interpterygoid notch, 14; ])osterior 
breadth of interpterygoid notch, 11.5; distance between anterior premo¬ 
lars, across palate, alveoli, 20; between posterior premolars, 20.5; between 
posterior molars, 22.5; length of audital lailla,, 18; length of mandible, 
80-5; length of upper lateral tooth row, including canine, alveoli, 43); com¬ 
bined length of upper molars, measured on crowns, 15; upper incisor 
tooth row, alveoli, 14.5; lower lateral tooth row, including canine, alveoli, 
49; length of lower molars, crowns, 20. 
* Procyon hcrnandezii, var. mexic.nna. Si. Hilaiiv, Voyaf'o de la Vcmts, Zooloaic, T, 
1855, 25, pi. VI (Mazatlan). — 
