Raccoon

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Racemic

coon (P. lotor) is found throughout North
America and in many parts of Mexico. The
body is strongly built, the head broad be-
hind, but tapering in front to a sharp muz-

of their fur, and also hunted at night with
the aid of dogs.

Race. See Ethnology; Species.

Race, Cape, the southeastern extremity of

Photos by Newman, Berkhamstcad.

Show Breeds oj Rabbits.

Upper Left, Blue Dutch; Upper Right, Blue Angora; Center, Dutch-Marked Angora;
Lower Left, English Rabbit; Lower Right, Flemish Giant.

zlc, and furnished with small and rounded
ears. The head and body together measure
from 22 to 26 in,, the tail, which is ringed
with black and white, being about ten ins.

Newfoundland. It has a lighthouse whose
light, 180 feet above the sea, is a beacon for
vessels on the North Atlantic route.
Raceme, an inflorescence in which the

Raccoon.

long. The body color is brownish. The fur
is loftg» soft, and thick, and the pelt has com-
mercial value. Raccoons are diligently trap-
ped in many parts of the country for the sake

flowers are borne on pedicels of equal length
along a central rachis, usually elongated.

Racemic Acid, COOH (CHOH)S COOH,
is that mixture of levo- and dextro-tartaric