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viduals. The Florida raccoon can be distinguished from the northern 
raccoon its yellower color and much brighter shoulder patch, 
longer tail, larger hands and feet, more rounded ear, and shorter, 
harsher pelage; while the skulls of the two can usually, but not 
always, be separated. Seen in the flesh, the two forms have a very 
different appearance, the Florida raccoon being lighter built and 
much more “leggy.” 
P. lotor elucvs is very common all over Florida and eastern 
Georgia, and is exceedingly abundant along the coast. In the salt 
marsh it wears, in many places, regular roads through the grass, 
where it can be trapped with ease. Often also one finds it curled 
up asleep in the fork of a tree. One day at St. Mary’s, while 
crossing a small island surrounded by marsh and covered by a 
heavy growth of old pine, live oak, and water oak, a boy and I shot 
six raccoons that we discovered asleep in the trees. 
The Florida raccoon swims well and does not hesitate to cross 
rivers and creeks, and thus finds its way to all the islands. 
Ursus (Euarctos) florid anus Merriam. 
Ursns floridanus Merriam, Proc. Biol. soc. Wash., 1896, vol. 10, 
p. 81. 
Type locality. Key Biscayne, Florida. 
The Florida bear is still comparatively common in Florida, espe¬ 
cially on the east coast. It occasionally still occurs on Anastasia 
Island; a fine individual taken there, as a cub, about six years ago, 
is on exhibition in one of the small museums in St. Augustine. 
There are also bear, probably of this species, on Cumberland Island, 
where I am glad to say they are protected by the owners of the 
island. 
It would be interesting to get specimens from the coast of 
Georgia still farther north, but all my efforts in this direction have 
been fruitless. 
I have but one specimen, an old adult skull taken many years 
ago by Mr. C. J. Maynard on the Indian River. 
A bear also occurs in the larger swamps of eastern Georgia, but 
as I have never been able to get a specimen I can not say whether 
it is the black bear (Ursus americanus ) or the Louisiana bear 
( Ursus luteolus). Mr. Brown heard of them at several places, and 
they were reported to be common in the large swamps at Barring- 
