CARNIVORA: URSIDAE 711 



to region northeast of Great Slave Lake (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 

 102 (1946), p. 46, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Genus THALARCTOS 88 Gray (polar bears) 



1825. Thalarctos Gray, Ann. Philos., new ser., vol. 10, p. 62, July 1825 

 (Type, Thalarctos polaris Gray = Ursus maritimus Phipps.) 



Thalarctos maritimus maritimus (Phipps) * 



1774. Ursus maritimus Phipps, A voyage toward the North Pole . . . , p. 185. 

 1862. Thalarctos maritimus Gray, Catalogue of the Bones of Mammalia in 



the . . . British Museum, p. 105. 

 1908. ? Thalassarclos jenaensis Knottnerus-Meyer, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Freunde, 



Berlin, p. 184, July 1908. (Jena Island, Spitzbergen.) 

 1908. ? Th[alassarctos] spitzbergen sis Knottnerus-Meyer, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. 



Freunde, Berlin, p. 184, July 1908. (Seven Islands, Spitzbergen.) 

 Type Locality. — Spitzbergen. Range. — From Greenland, Ellesmere Island, 

 Devon Island, Baffin Island, and other islands of eastern Canadian Arctic Archi- 

 pelago, as far west as Victoria Strait; south to Hudson Bay and James Bay at 

 least to Twin Islands (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946) , p. 47, Jan. 

 24, 1947). 

 Thalarctos maritimus ungavensis (Knottnerus-Meyer) * 



1884. Thalassarctos maritimus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 



29) , p. 608, Nov. 29, 1884. ( Part) . 

 1908. [Thalassarctos maritimus] var. ungavensis Knottnerus-Meyer, Sitzb. 

 Ges. naturf. Freunde, Berlin, p. 181, July 1908. (Regarded as identical 

 with maritimus by Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 47, 

 Jan. 24, 1947.) 

 1912. Thalarctos maritimus ungavensis Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 77, 



Dec. 31, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Near Killinek, Ungava Bay, Canada. 



Thalarctos maritimus groenlandicus (Birula) * 



1932. Thalassarctos maritimus groenlandicus Birula, Trav. Inst. Zool. Acad. 



Sci.U.S.S.R.,vol.l,pp.ll,132. 

 Type Locality. — Western Greenland. 



Thalarctos eogroenlandicus (Knottnerus-Meyer) * 



1908. Thalassarctos eogroenlandicus Knottnerus-Meyer, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. 

 Freunde, Berlin, p. 182, July 1908. (Regarded as identical wilh maritimus 

 by Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946) , p. 47, Jan. 24, 1947.) 



1912. Thalarctos eogroenlandicus Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 77, Dec. 

 31, 1912. 



Type Locality. — Pack ice off coast of eastern Greenland. 



Thalarctos labradorensis (Knottnerus-Meyer)* 



1908. Th[alassarctos] labradorensis Knotlnerus-Meyer, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. 

 Freunde, Berlin, p. 183, July 1908. 



** Revised by Knottnerus-Meyer, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 1908, pp. 170-187, 

 July 1908. 



