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U. S. P. R. R. EXP. AND SURVEYS-ZOOLOGY—GENERAL REPORT. 
The preceding measurements of Nos. A, B, C, and 1067, were taken from dried skins ; of 1149 
from a skin in alcohol; No. 307 was measured while fresh, before skinning, and may be con¬ 
sidered as expressing the true proportions. No. 1149 in several respects differs from the others . 
and in size, proportions, brown color of feet, approaches nearer to the P. hernandezii, which, 
possibly, it may prove to he. 
List of specimens. 
Catalogue number. 
Corresponding No. 
of skull. 
No. of specimen. | 
Sex and age. 
Locality. 
When 
collected. 
Whence obtained. 
| Original number, j 
Nature of 
specimen. 
Measurements. 
Collected by— 
1067 
36 
A,B, C, 
1655 
2342 
1608-12 
1912 
1875 
1876 
1825 
1149 
3 
o 
Middlehoro’, Mass. T - T .. 
Nov. 1,1855 
J. W. P. Jenks. 
Dry skin ... 
933 
3 
St. Lawrence co., N. Y. 
Washington, D. C. 
F. B. Hough. 
National Institute 
Mounted... 
Spottsylvania co., Va 
A. W. Massey .... 
Skin. 
I. W. Raymond.... 
Dr. S. W. Wilson 
Skin, albino 
Skin .. , 
5 
St Simon’s island Ga 
2573 
2574 
o 
<7 
s 
Fort Kearney, Neb. 
Ft. Riley to Ft. Kearney. 
Republican Fork. 
Fort. Randall, Noh . 
July 10,1856 
July 2, 1856 
Oct. 24,1856 
L . F. T. Bryan.... 
53 
392 
In alcohol.. 
Skin. 
_do. 
3 
54 
8 
16 
27 
34 
8 
94 
44 
12 
W. S. Wood... 
.do. 
Dr.F.V.Hayden. 
2037 
A. fl. Barry,, . T _ 
Skin in ale. 
PROCYON HERNANDEZII, Wagler. 
Black-footed Raccoon. 
Procyon hernandezii, Wagler, Isis, XXIV, 1831, 514. 
Wiegmann, in Archiv, III, i, 1837, 367.— Ib. Annals and Mag. N. H. I, 1838, 133. 
Wagner, Suppl. Schreber, II, 1841, 157; also in Schreber Saugt. Ill, pi. cxliii, A, (interpolated.) 
? Procyon nivea, Gray, Charlesw. Mag. N. H. I, 1837, 580. (Albino.) 
“ Tepe Maxllaton, Hern. Thes. 9.” 
Quid Procyon psora, Gray, Annals and Mag. N. H. X, 1842, 261, (Sacramento river.)—I b. Zool. Sulphur, 1844, 
32; pi. xi, (animal,) pi. xvii, f. 1, 2, 3, (skull). 
Sp. Ch. —Larger than P. lotor. General color grayish white, with a tinge of yellowish ; long hairs tipped with black. Under 
fur dark brown. A large oblique black patch on the side of the face continuous with a paler one under the chin. Sides and 
under part of the muzzle, posterior margin of the cheek pateh, and the ear, whitish. Tail tapering to tip, with five or six 
annuli and the tip black ; the annuli half as wide only as the rusty whitish interspaces. Hind feet exceeding four inches ; the 
upper surface mostly dark brown. Naked part of the soles three inches. 
Varies in lighter colors and substitution of rusty brown or chestnut for the black tints. 
In general appearance, this species closely resembles P. lotor , and its characteristics are more 
comparative than absolute. In size, it somewhat exceeds the lotor. The general color is a pale 
yellowish gray above and on the sides, (yellowest on the nape,) overlaid with black tips to the 
hairs. There is a dark brown stripe from the muffle along the top of the snout, lost in the 
forehead ; on each side of the face is a well defined large patch of black which passes obliquely 
from the stripe just mentioned over the eye, and runs off to an angle behind the commissure of 
the mouth. The eye is situated half its diameter within the posterior edge of the patch, the 
anterior edge of which is about midway between the posterior edge and the end of the snout. 
There is a broad bar under the chin, forming the continuation of the cheek patches, and the 
portions anterior to these marks being white, the effect is as if a black muzzle had been immersed 
