_Specimens examined_ (10).--2 mi. N, 5 mi. W Ludlow, 4; 1/2 mi. W Reva,
1; 4 mi. E Reva, 2; NW 1/4 sec. 32, R. 1 E, T. 20 N, 3.
The raccoon evidently is one of the commonest carnivores in Harding
County. On June 24, 1961, a den with three young (average total length,
429) was found in one of the numerous pockets eroded from the caprock of
the North Cave Hills, and on May 21, 1968, another den, this one
containing five young (average total length of three, 271), was found in
a similar situation on the east edge of the Long Pine Hills. A female
trapped on June 20, 1961, was lactating.
Three individuals that had been killed at Ralph, along nearly treeless
Big Nasty Creek, were examined on May 28, 1968.
~Mustela frenata longicauda~ Bonaparte, 1838