Procee(llii</s of (Jig Biolo</i.cal Soriefii of I) asliivf/lon. 
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Procyon lotor californicus subsp. iiov. 
SOUTHWESTIHlX JIAOC<)OX. 
Tijpe-s'peciinen. —Adult leniale, Cat. No. (>01)75, IT. 8. Nat. AIus.; col¬ 
lected oil the ocean beach near the la.st ]\rexican Jtoundarj^ nionnnient 
(No. 258), San Diego County, in the sonth\ve.stern corner of California, 
.lulyK), 1894, by Frank Xavier llolzner. (Original nninber, 1005.) 
Characters. —.Most closely related to Procyon lotor psora (Cray) from 
Sacramento, California, difiering in its slightly smaller size and consider- 
abl}'^ paler coloration, with the overhair of nnderparts whitish instead of 
jiale yellow; sknll narrower, with the audital bulhe much compressed 
laterally. 
Color (based on adult male. Cat. No. U. S. Nat. Mus., taken at 
National City, southwestern California, July 22, 1890; original number, 
580; from C. K. Worthen).—Upperparts, from nape to tail, soiled gray¬ 
ish wliite, darkened by brownish-black tips to the overhairs, which are 
broadest and darkest in the lumbar region; nape and interscapular re¬ 
gion faintly tinged with clay color; head with the usual blackish mask, 
extending backward from the naked nasal pad to the forc'head, expand¬ 
ing across the face and sides of head, enclosing the eyes and ending 
in a point below the ear, wdth a narrow median process connecting the 
blackish mask with the dark crown; the mask liordered all round by 
a white band; lower lip white; ears white with a black band at base 
extending backward from the anterior base of the ear for a distance 
of seventy milimeters; crown lirownish black considerably mixed with 
grayish white; underiiarts with overhair white and so s[)ar.se as to reveal 
the underfur between; upper throat warm sepia; fore limbs dirty grayish 
white throughout; feet and hind limbs soiled grayish white, showing the 
dark underfur between the long hairs, and with a brownish-black area 
above the heel; tail soiled grayish white, with black tip and six dark rings 
which are obsolete on liasal portion above and scarcely discernable any¬ 
where on the underside; underfur of back, and outer surface of limbs, 
fuscous, jialing to benzo brown on the under side of body. 
Two adult females (type and practical topotyiie No. lb S. Nat. 
5rus.,from National City, southwestern Califonda),*taken July !(> and I), 
respectively, closely resemble the above-described male except that they 
have a slight brownish suffusion as if dirty from contact with the soil. 
External measurements of type (adult female, measured fresh by the 
author).—Total length, 810; tail vertebnc, 812; pencil, 00; ear from 
crown, 00; hind foot, with claw, 112; longest whisker, 98; longest hairs 
on dorsum, 7:!. 
External measurements of adult male (a well-made skin; Cat. No. 
(I. S. Nat. iMus.; taken at National City, southwestern (bdifornia, Jnly 22, 
— Head and body, 055; tail, 290; ixmcil, 50; hind foot, including 
claw, 120; ear above crown, 29; longest whisku'r, 98; longest bair on 
dorsum, 01.t 
* The collector recorded the rollowiiiff cxteriiiil measiiroiuonls on thehihel: liody, 
iiiches; tail.M; car. 2X. 
(Jollector’.s iiK'asureincnts from fresh spocimcn: Uody,2-1)4 inches; tail, 11)4: oar, 
2)4. 
