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as occurring formerly at least on San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino 

 County; westernmost stations of record at north, Forest House Mountain, 4,000 

 feet, 8 miles west of Yreka, Siskiyou County, and South Fork Mountain, Hum- 

 boldt County; thence occurs south, west of Sacramento Valley, to vicinity of 

 North Yolla Bolly Mountain, Trinity County (Grinnell, Univ. California Publ 

 Zool., vol. 40, No. 2, p. 196, Sept. 26, 1933) ; Oregon (V. Bailey, North Amer 

 Fauna No. 55 (June), p. 228, Aug. 29, 1936) ; the Columbian Plateau and Blue 

 Mountains of Washington (Dalquest, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol 

 2, p. 376, Apr. 9, 1948) ; Nevada, except Clark County (Hall, Mammals of Ne 

 vada, p. 585, July 1, 1946) ; Idaho (Davis, The Recent mammals of Idaho, p 

 344, Apr. 5, 1939) ; Utah west of Colorado River (Kelson, Univ. Utah Biol. Ser. 

 vol. 11, No. 3, p. 101, Feb. 15, 1951) ; and from Cypress Hills area of south 

 eastern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada, as an intergrade with 

 bruneri (Anderson and Rand, op. cit., p. 309), southward in mountainous re 

 gions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado (Warren, the mammals of Colo 

 rado, p. 243, 1942) to San Juan, Jemez, Taos, and Pecos River Mountains, N 

 Mex. (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 53 (December 1931), p. 220, Mar. 1 

 1932). 

 Erethizon clorsatuni couesi Mearnsf* 



1897. Erethizon epixanthus couesi Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 19, 

 p. 723, July 30, 1897. 



1946. Erethizon dorsatum couesi Hall, Mammals of Nevada, p. 649, July 1, 

 1946. 



Type Locality. — Fort Whipple, Yavapai County, Ariz. Range.— From New 

 York Mountains in northeastern San Bernardino County, Calif. (Jaeger, Journ. 

 Mamm., vol. 30, No. 2, p. 200, May 23, 1949), eastward across Arizona (re- 

 corded from Yuma County by Monson, Journ. Mamm., vol. 29, No. 2, p. 182, 

 May 14, 1948; from Coconino County by Doutt, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vol. 23, 

 p. 266, August 4, 1934; and from Cochise County by Dice and Blossom, Carnegie 

 Inst. Washington Publ. 485, p. 39, 1937. See also Taylor, Univ. Arizona Bull., 

 vol. 6, No. 5 (Biol. Sci. Bull. 3), pp. 20-21, July 1, 1935) to Mogollon Moun- 

 tain region of New Mexico (recorded from Mimbres, San Mateo, Magdalena, 

 and Datil Ranges by V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 53 (December 1931), 

 p. 222, Mar. 1, 1932), and southward to Guadalupe and Delaware mountains, 

 Culberson County, Tex. (Davis and Robertson, Journ. Mamm., vol. 25, No. 3, p. 

 271, May 26, 1944. See also, V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 25, p. 150, 

 Oct. 24, 1905; and Blair, Univ. Michigan Mus. Zool. Misc. Publ. 46, p. 33, June 

 28, 1940) ; northward to Clark County, southeastern Nevada (Hall, op. cit., p. 

 585), to Chromo, Archuleta County, southwestern Colorado (F. W. Miller, Journ. 

 Mamm., vol. 5, No. 2, p. 134, May 10, 1924) ; and to southeastern Utah east of 

 Colorado River (Kelson, Univ. Utah Biol. Ser., vol. 11, No. 3, p. 101, Feb. 15, 

 1951). Recorded also in Texas south to Hudspeth, Brewster, and Kerr Counties 

 (Taylor and Davis, Texas Game, Fish, and Oyster Comm. Bull. 27, p. 66, 

 August 1947) . 



