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1912. Mustela vison melampeplus Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 102, 



Dec. 31, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Range. — Kenai Peninsula and Cook 

 Inlet region, Alaska. 



Mustela vison ingens (Osgood) f * 



1900. Lutreola vison ingens Osgood, North Amer. Fauna No. 19, p. 42, Oct. 



6, 1900. 

 1912. Mustela vison ingens Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 101, Dec. 31, 



1912. 

 Type Locality. — Fort Yukon, Alaska. Range. — Northern, western, and central 

 Alaska; northern Yukon and northwestern Mackenzie; south to Alaska Peninsula 

 and to Fort Good Hope, Mackenzie; east to Anderson River. 



Mustela macrodon (Prentiss) f* 



1903. Lutreola macrodon Prentiss, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 26, p. 887, July 

 6, 1903. 



1911. Lutreola vison antiquus Loomis, Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. 31, p. 228, 

 March 1911. (Flagg Island, Casco Bay, Maine.) 



1912. Mustela macrodon Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 101, Dec. 31, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Shell heaps at Brooklin, Hancock County, Maine. Range. — 



At present known from skeletal remains only; according to Hardy (Forest and 

 Stream, vol. 61, p. 125, Aug. 15, 1903) the animal became extinct about 1860. 



Subgenus PUTORIUS M G. Cuvier 



1817. Putorius G. Cuvier, Le regne animal . . . , vol. 1, p. 147. (Type, 

 Mustela putorius Linnaeus.) 



Mustela nigripes (Audubon and Bachman) * (black-footed ferret) 



1851. Putorius nigripes Audubon and Bachman, The viviparous quadrupeds 

 of North America, vol. 2, p. 297. 



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

 p. 609, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1912. Mustela nigripes Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 102, Dec. 31, 1912. 



Type Locality. — Fort Laramie, Goshen County, Wyo. (See Hayden, Trans. 

 Amer. Philos. Soc, new ser., vol. 12, p. 138, 1862.) Range. — Great Plains, from 

 western North Dakota and northern Montana, north to southeastern Alberta and 

 southwestern Saskatchewan, south to Texas, and thence westward through New 

 Mexico to country north of Williams, Ariz., to southern rim of Grand Canyon, 

 which to date appears to be its most westerly known habitat. Vertical range in 

 Rocky Mountains up to 10,500 feet (Young, Amer. Forests, vol. 46, No. 1, p. 18, 

 January 1940). Recorded also eastward to Norman, Cleveland County, Okla. 

 (Arvey and Glass, Journ. Mamm., vol. 31, No. 4, p. 460, Nov. 21, 1950). 



Subfamily tayrinae 

 Genus TAYRA 98 Oken 



1816. Tayra Oken, Okens Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, pt. 3 (Zoologie), 

 sect. 2, p. 1001. (Type, Mustela barbara Linnaeus.) 



M Revised by Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 11, pp. 7-9, June 30, 1896. 

 " Names published by Oken in 1816 regarded by Hershkovitz, Journ. Mamm., vol. 30, No. 3, 

 p. 295, Aug. 17, 1949, as non-Linnaean and not available. 



