RODENTIA: SC1URIDAE 187 



Marrnota caligata cascailensis A. H. Howellf * 



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

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



Type Locality. — Mount Rainier, Pierce County, Wash. Range. — Cascade 

 Range (at and above timberline) from Mount Rainier, Wash., north to southern 

 British Columbia (Mount Baker Range and Howe Sound, a little north of Van- 

 couver) ; intergrading with okanagana on east side of Cascade Mountains on 

 south bank of Thompson River near Spences Bridge, British Columbia (Anderson, 

 Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946) , p. 107, Jan. 24, 1947) . 



Marmota caligata raceyi Anderson* 



1932. Marmota caligata raceyi Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada, Bull. 70, p. 112, 

 Nov. 24, 1932. 



Type Locality. — Itcha Mountains, Chilcotin Plateau, south of Isacha Lake, 

 range III, coast district, British Columbia; lat. 52° 45' N., long. 125° W. Alti- 

 tude, 6,500 feet. Range. — From Chilcotin Plateau between middle Fraser River 

 and Coast Mountains, west to upper Bella Coola Valley, British Columbia (see 

 distribution map, Anderson and Hall, Canadian Field-Nat., vol. 48, p. 60, Apr. 2, 

 1934). 



Marmota caligata vigilis Heller* 



1909. Marmota vigilis Heller, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 5, No. 2, p. 248, 

 Feb. 18, 1909. 



1915. Marmota caligata vigilis A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 37, p. 61, 

 Apr. 7, 1915. 



Type Locality. — West shore of Glacier Bay, Alaska. Range. — Known from 

 type locality only. 



Marmota olynipus (Merriam)f* 



1898. Arctomys olympus Merriam, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 50, 



p. 352, Oct. 4, 1898. 

 1904. [Marmota] olympus Trouessart, Catalogus Mammaliurn . . . , Suppl., 



fasc. 2, p. 344. 

 Type Locality. — Timberline at head of Soleduc River, Olympic Mountains, 

 Clallam County, Wash. Range. — Upper slopes of Olympic Mountains, Wash., 

 above timberline (from about 4,000 feet altitude to near summits of peaks) . 



Marmota vancoiiverensis Swarth* 



1911. Marmota vancoiiverensis Swarth, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 7, 

 No. 6, p. 201, Feb. 18, 1911. 



Type Locality. — Mount Douglas, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. 

 Range. — Vancouver Island; apparently not generally distributed, and known at 

 present only from "the mountains at the head of China Creek, some 20 miles south 

 of Alberni, in the Golden Eagle Basin, and King Solomon Basin, and on the 

 surrounding slopes and ridges." 



Genus CYNOMYS 60 Rafinesque (prairie-dogs) 

 1817. Cynomys Rafinesque > Amer. Monthly Mag. vol. 2, No. 1, p. 45, November 

 1817. (Type, Cynomys socialis Rafinesque = Arctomys ludoviciana Ord.) 



68 Revised by Hollister, North Amer. Fauna No. 40, June 20, 1916. 



