. The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies . h large, powerful {Enpro-cyon) P. cancrivonts 492 484. pygmasus {Procyon), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiv, 1901, p. lOI. Little R.\ccoon. Type locality. Island of Cozumel, Yucatan, Mexico. Gcnl. Char. Similar to P. I. hcrnandczi, but much smaller. Color. Above mixed black and gray, with a yellowish tinge onmedian line; transverse black bar across face, succeeded above by awhitish one with a median dusky line; chin, lips, and sides of throatwhitish; dusky band across throat; tmder parts grizzled gray, tingedwith yellowish; t
. The land and sea mammals of Middle America and the West Indies . h large, powerful {Enpro-cyon) P. cancrivonts 492 484. pygmasus {Procyon), Merr., Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiv, 1901, p. lOI. Little R.\ccoon. Type locality. Island of Cozumel, Yucatan, Mexico. Gcnl. Char. Similar to P. I. hcrnandczi, but much smaller. Color. Above mixed black and gray, with a yellowish tinge onmedian line; transverse black bar across face, succeeded above by awhitish one with a median dusky line; chin, lips, and sides of throatwhitish; dusky band across throat; tmder parts grizzled gray, tingedwith yellowish; tail yellowish, with six or more dark brown ringsrather faint on the under side; ankles dusky; hands and feet grayish,the latter suffused with brown. ;nrc)nciits. Total length, 667; tail vertebra^, 230; hind foot,90. Skull: basal length, 88; occipito-nasal length, 88; palatal length,58; zygomatic breadth, 59; length of upper molar series, 17. 485. maynardi {Procyon), Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, p. 92. FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. PLATE L, PROCYON L. HERNANDEZ!.No. 8681 Field Columbian Mus. Coll. Ji nat. size. PROCYON. 401 Maynards Raccoon. Type locality. New Providence Island, Bahama Islands. (jcuI. Char. Size small; palatine extension short and narrow;upper carnassial molar teeth small and less square than in P. lotor,less truncate on inner sides, and more pointed; molar slender, weak;infraorbital foramen large. Color. Like P. lotor; shoulder patch paler, with more black hairs. Measiircmoits. Total length, 623; tail vertebrae, 210; hind foot,96. Skull: length of nasals, ; length of palate, ; width ofpalate, at middle of carnassial tooth, ; length of palatine, exten-sion from a line across alveoli of last upper molars to end of ptery-goid process, ; to end of palate, ; least width of palatineextension, ; length of single half of mandible, (Bangs,) lotor hrrududezi (Procyoii), Wagl., Isis, 1831, p. 514. Elliot, Am
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