CARNIVORA: MUSTELIDAE 747 



County) and central (vicinity Lake Tahoe) Sierra Nevada in California 

 northward through Oregon and Washington (Dalquest, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 202, Apr. 9, 1948) probably to western British Columbia 

 (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946) , p. 69, footnote, Jan. 24, 1947) . 



Gulo luscus vancouverensis Goldraanf* 



1935. Gulo luscus vancouverensis Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 

 48, p. 177, Nov. 15, 1935. (See also Cowan, Canadian Field-Nat., vol. 

 50, pp. 145-146, Dec. 3, 1936.) 

 Type Locality. — Great Central Lake, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, 

 Canada. Range. — Restricted to Vancouver Island. 



Gulo hylaeus Elliot* 



1905. Gulo hylaeus Elliot, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 18, p. 81, Feb. 



21, 1905. 

 Type Locality. — Susitna River, region of Mount McKinley, Alaska. 



Gulo katschemakensis Matschie* 



1918. Gulo katschemakensis Matschie, Sitzb. Ges. naturf. Freunde, Berlin, 

 p. 151, July 30, 1918. (Regarded by Anthony, Field book of North 

 American mammals, p. 113, 1923, as indistinguishable from Gulo luscus 

 luscus.) 



Type Locality. — Katschemak Bay, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 



Subfamily taxidiinae (American badgers) 



Genus TAXIDEA" 1 Waterhouse 

 1839. Taxideu Waterhouse, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1838, pt. 6, p. 153, 

 May 1839. (Type Meles labradorius Gmelin = Ursus taxus Schreber.) 



Taxidea taxus taxus (Schreber) * 



1778. Ursus taxus Schreber, Die Saugthiere . . . , vol. 3, p. 520. 



1884. Taxidea americana americana True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., 

 Circ. 29) , p. 609, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1894. Taxidea taxus Rhoads, Amer. Nat., vol. 23, p. 524, June 1894. 



Type Locality. — Labrador and Hudson Bay (probably southwest of Hudson 

 Bay). Range. — Southwestern Ontario (Rainey River District) and Great Plains 

 region of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, to foothills of Rocky mountains; 

 south to northern Indiana, northern Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Min- 

 nesota ; and into southern British Columbia. 



Taxidea taxus jacksoni Schantzf* 



1946. Taxiden taxus jacksoni Schantz, Journ. Maram., vol. 26, No. 4 (Novem- 

 ber 1945), p. 431, Feb. 12, 1946. 



Type Locality. — Four miles east of Milton, Rock County, Wis. Range. — 

 Southern Wisconsin and southern Minnesota; limits of range undetermined. 



Taxidea taxus iowae Schantzf* 



1947. Taxidea taxus iowae Schantz, Journ. Mamm., vol. 28, No. 3 (August 

 1947), p. 287, Sept. 3,1947. 



" Reviged by Hall, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 473, pp. 77-83, Nov. 20, 1936. 



