CARNIVORA: CANIDAE 669 



p. 31, 1939) south to Gulf of St. Lawrence near Newfoundland and along coast 

 of New England; probably wintered regularly as far south as coasts of South 

 Carolina and Bermuda Islands (True, Smithsonian Contr. Knowl., vol. 33, 

 pp. 244-268, Aug. 29, 1904) . 



Eubalaena sieboldii (Gray) 



1864. Balaena sieboldii Gray, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 14, p. 349, 

 November 1864. 



1866. Eubalaena sieboldii Gray, Catalogue of the seals and whales in the 

 British Museum, p. 96. 



Type Locality. — Coast of Japan and northwest coast of North America. 

 Range. — In eastern North Pacific from Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska (Townsend, 

 Zoologica, New York Zool. Soc, vol. 19, No. 1, pi. 3, Apr. 3, 1935) , south through 

 Aleutian chain and Queen Charlotte Strait to coast of Oregon, and occasionally 

 along coasts of California (Starks, California Fish and Game Comm. Fish Bull. 

 6, p. 35, 1922) and Baja California (Scammon, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, vol. 21, No. 1, p. 38, April 1869). 



Genus BALAENA Linnaeus 

 1758. Balaena Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 75. (Type, 

 Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus.) 



Balaena mysticetus Linnaeus* (bowhead whale) 



1758. [Balaena] mysticetus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 75. 



1884. Balaena mysticetus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 29) , 

 p. 591, Nov. 29, 1884. 



Type Locality. — Greenland Seas. Range. — In western North Atlantic formerly 

 from Iceland, Wolstenholme Sound in northern Baffin Bay, and waters bordering 

 Canadian Arctic Archipelago (Kellogg, Ann. Rep. Smithsonian Inst., 1928, 

 pp. 478-482, Nov. 18, 1929) south to Strait of Belle Isle and St. Lawrence River 

 (True, Smithsonian Contr. Knowl., vol. 33, pp. 12, 43, Aug. 29, 1904) ; in 

 Arctic Ocean from Amundsen Gulf off Baring Island westward along Arctic 

 coast of Canada and Alaska to Wrangell Island (Townsend, Zoologica, New 

 York Zool. Soc, vol. 19, No. 1, pi. 4, Apr. 3, 1935) ; and in western Bering Sea 

 south at least to Pribilof Islands (Preble, North Amer. Fauna No. 46, p. 115, 

 June 27, 1923; see also Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 90, 

 Jan. 24, 1947). 



Order CARNIVORA 



Suborder FISSIPEDIA 



Superfamily CANOIDEA 



Family Canidae 



Subfamily caninae 



Genus CANIS Linnaeus 



1758. Cards Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 38. (Type, Canis 

 jamiliaris Linnaeus.) 



