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1918. Ursus gyas Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 41, p. 124, Feb. 9, 1918. 



Type Locality. — Pavlof Bay, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska. Range. — Entire 

 length of Alaska Peninsula from Cook Inlet to Isanotski Strait and adjacent 

 Unimak Island. 



Ursus middendorffi Merriam f* 



1896. Ursus middendorffi Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 10, p. 

 69, Apr. 13, 1896. 



1911. Ursus kadiaki Kleinschmidt, Outdoor Life, vol. 27, p. 3, January 1911. 



Type Locality. — Kodiak Island, Alaska. Range. — Kodiak and adjacent 

 islands, Af ognak and Shuyak ; not known from mainland. 



arctos — group 

 Ursus arctos beringianus Middendorff * 



1853. Ur[sus] arctos var. beringiana Middendorff, Reise in den aussersten 



Norden und Osten Sibiriens . . ., vol. 2, pt. 2, pi. 1, figs. 1-6. 

 1855. Ursus piscator Pucheran, Rev. Mag. Zool., Paris, ser. 2, vol. 7, p. 392, 



August 1855. (Petropaulovski, southern Kamtchatka.) 

 1924. U[rsus] a[rctos] kolymensis Ognev, Priroda i Okhota na Ukraine 

 (Nature and Sport in Ukraine), Kharkov, vol. 1, pt. 2, p. 112. (Saborzevo, 

 Kolyma River, northwest of Sea of Okhotsk, Anadirsk district, Siberia, 

 U.S.S.R.) 

 1951. Ursus arctos beringianus Ellerman and Morrison-Scott, Checklist of 

 Palaearctic and Indian Mammals 1758 to 1946, Publ. Brit. Mus. (Nat. 

 Hist.), p. 238, Nov. 19, 1951. 

 Type Locality. — Great Shantar Island, Sea of Okhotsk. Range. — Recorded 

 from St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, Alaska (A. H. Howell, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 21, No. 2, p. 216, May 13, 1941 ) . 



kenaiensis — group 

 Ursus kenaiensis Merriamf * 



1904. Ursus kenaiensis Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 17, p. 



154, Oct. 6, 1904. 

 Type Locality. — Cape Elizabeth, extreme west end of Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 

 Range. — Kenai Peninsula. 



Ursus sheldoni Merriamf* 



1910. Ursus sheldoni Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 23, p. 127, 



Sept. 2, 1910. 

 Type Locality. — Montague Island, Prince William Sound, Alaska. 



inopinatus — group 

 Ursus inopinatus (Merriam) f* 



1918. Vetularctos inopinatus Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 41, p. 132, 



Feb. 9, 1918. 

 Type Locality. — Rendezvous Lake (about lat. 69° N., long. 126° W., near 

 northern limit of trees between middle parts of Anderson River and Horton 

 River), northeast of old Fort Anderson, Mackenzie District, Northwest Terri- 

 tories, Canada. Range. — Southern edge of Barren Grounds from Anderson River 



