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Marraota caligata sheldoni A. H. Howellf* 



1914. Marmota caligata sheldoni A. H. Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, vol. 27, p. 18, Feb. 2, 1914. 



Type Locality. — Montague Island, Alaska. Range. — Known from type lo- 

 cality only. 



Marmota caligata oxytona Hollisterf* 



1912. Marmota sibila Hollister, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 35, p. 1, 

 Feb. 7, 1912. (Not Arctomys sibila Wolf, 1808.) 



1914. Marmota oxytona Hollister, Science, new ser., vol. 39, p. 251, Feb. 13, 

 1914. (Substitute for sibila Hollister.) 



1915. Marmota caligata oxytona A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 37, 

 p. 63, Apr. 7, 1915. 



Type Locality. — Head of Moose Pass Branch of the Smoky River, Alberta, 

 Canada. Altitude, 7,200 feet. Range. — Interior of northern British Columbia, 

 southwestern Mackenzie and southeastern Yukon, from Teslin Lake and Liard 

 River south to Barkerville, British Columbia, and Mount Robson region, British 

 Columbia and Alberta. 



Marmota caligaia oStanagana (King) * 



1836. Arctomys okanaganus King, Narrative of a journey to the shores of the 

 Arctic Ocean . . . , vol. 2, p. 236. 



1914. (Marmota) okanagana A. H. Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 

 27, p. 17, Feb. 2. 1914. 



1915. Marmota caligata okanagana A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 37, 

 p. 64, Apr. 7, 1915. 



Type Locality. — The region occupied by Okanagan Indians on borders of Rocky 

 Mountains between Columbia and Fraser Rivers. Fixed (A. H. Howell, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 27, p. 17, Feb. 2, 1914) as Gold Range (Shuswap 

 Range; see Anderson, Canadian Field-Nat., vol. 48, p. 62, Apr. 2, 1934), British 

 Columbia, Canada. Range. — Gold and Selkirk Ranges, British Columbia, and 

 probably main range of Rocky Mountains in Alberta from Banff to Henry 

 House; mountains of southern interior of British Columbia from McGillivray 

 Creek near Lillooet, east through Shuswap and Monashee Ranges and Selkirk 

 Mountains; south to extreme northeastern Washington in Columbia Valley 

 (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 108, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Marmota caligata nivaria A. II. Howellf* 



1914. Marmota caligata nivaria A. H. Howell, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 27, p. 17, Feb. 2, 1914. 



Type Locality. — Mountains near Upper St. Mary's Lake, Glacier County, 

 Mont. Altitude, 6,100 feet. Range. — Upper slopes (at and above timberline) of 

 Bitterroot and Salmon River Mountains, northern Idaho, and of high mountains 

 of northwestern Montana; north to Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, 

 Canada (see distribution map, Anderson and Hall, Canadian Field-Nat., vol. 48, 

 p. 60, Apr. 2, 1934) . Recorded as far north as Farrow Pass northwest of Mount 

 Assiniboine, British Columbia (Crowe, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 80, p. 397, 

 Feb. 4, 1943). 



