CARNIVORA: CANIDAE 681 



Type Locality. — Name restricted by Goldman (loc. cit.) to the subspecies that 

 occurs 15 miles west of Austin, Travis County, Tex. Range. — Formerly north- 

 western Arkansas, eastern Oklahoma except Ozark Mountains in southeastern 

 corner, and south through central Texas to Gulf coast near Aransas Bay; west 

 to Pecos River Valley. Now believed to be restricted to parts of central and 

 southern Texas, intergrading with gregoryi in eastern part of the State. 



Genus ALOPEX Kaup (arctic foxes) 

 1829. Alopex Kaup, Skizzirtc Entwickelungs-Geschiehte und Natiirliches Sys- 

 tem der Europaischen Thierwclt, pt. 1, p. 85. (Type, Canis lagopus 

 Linnaeus.) 



Alopex lagopus groenlandicus (Bechstein) * 



1799. Canis groenlandicus Bechstein, Thomas Pennant's allgemeine Ueber- 



sicht der vierfiissigen Thiere, vol. 1, p. 270. 

 1898. ? Canis lagopus spitzbergenensis Barrett-Hamilton and Bonhote, Ann. 



Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7 vol. 1, p. 287, April 1898. (Spitzbergen.) 

 1947. Alopex lagopus groenlandicus Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 



(1946), p. 50, Jan. 24, 1947. 

 Type Locality.— Greenland. Range. — Greenland and parts of Ellesmere 

 Island, Northwest Territories, Canada. 



Alopex lagopus innuitus (Merriam) f * 



1902. Vulpes lagopus innuitus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 

 15, p. 170, Aug. 6, 1902. 



1911. V[ulpes] lagopus kenaiensis Brass, Aus dem Reiche der Pelze, p. 466, 

 April 1911. (Not Vulpes kenaiensis Merriam. Mainland of Alaska.) 



1912. Alopex lagopus innuitus Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 82, Dec. 

 31, 1912. 



Type Locality. — Karogar River, Point Barrow, Alaska. Range. — Arctic coast 

 and tundra region from western and northern Alaska, northern Yukon, and 

 Mackenzie and Keewatin Districts of Northwest Territories to west side of Hud- 

 son Bay and Baffin Island; northern parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Mani- 

 toba, and that part of northwestern Ontario bordering on Hudson Bay; found 

 on most islands of Canadian Arctic and ranges far out on sea ice in winter (Ander- 

 son, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 51, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Alopex lagopus ungava (Merriam) f* 



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



p. 610, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 

 1902. Vulpes lagopus ungava Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 15, 



p. 170, Aug. 6, 1902. 

 1912. Alopex lagopus ungava Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 82, Dec. 31, 



1912. 

 Type Locality. — Fort Chimo, south of Ungava Bay, Quebec, Canada. Range. — 

 Ordinarily restricted to treeless parts of Labrador and northern Ungava Penin- 

 sula, but some winters appears in considerable numbers as far south as north 

 shore of Gulf of St. Lawrence (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), 

 p. 51, Jan. 24, 1947) . 



