Field notes, Part 2, v488
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Alearm 1939 Procyon lotor East Fork Walker River, Upper Morgan Ranch, Mineral Co., Nev. Dec. 28. Today I saw a large raccoon skin owned by Mr. W. E. Lewis. Mr. Lewis said he had caught three raccoon the past two months and had turned one loose & had sold the fur of another. He stated that the skeleton to the large skin was thrown into the brush along with a coyote carcass. The wolfed down to the river where the remains were thrown but the raccoon carcass was not found & the coyote remains were half eaten. Hogs were in this field & possibly they ate or carried the raccoon away. Mr. Lewis said he had caught a few raccoon in this vicinity every year.