CARNIVORA: FELIDAE 773 



concolor — group 9 (pumas) 

 Felis concolor couguar Kerr* 



1792. Felis couguar Kerr, The animal kingdom, . . . , p. 151. 



1884. Felis concolor True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 ( App., Circ. 29) , p. 610, 



Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 

 1929. Felis concolor couguar Nelson and Goldman, Journ. Mamm., vol. 10, 



No. 4, p. 347, Nov. 11, 1929. 

 Type Locality. — Pennsylvania. Range. — Formerly eastern United States as 

 far north as Maine and to southern Ontario and Quebec. 



Felis concolor missoulensis Goldmanf * 



1943. Felis concolor missoulensis Goldman, Journ. Mamm., vol. 24, No. 2 

 (May), p. 229, June 7, 1943. 



Type Locality. — Sleeman Creek, about 10 miles southwest of Missoula, Mis- 

 soula County, Mont. Range. — Northern Rocky Mountain region from Yellow- 

 stone National Park. Wyo., north to Jasper Park, Alberta, northern Cassiar 

 (Big Muddy River), and Peace River district, British Columbia; east to south- 

 western Saskatchewan and northwestern North Dakota; west to Wallowa Moun- 

 tains, northeastern Oregon. 



Felis concolor hippolestes Merriamf* 



1897. Felis hippolestes Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 11, p. 219, 



July 15, 1897. 

 1929. Felis concolor hippolestes Nelson and Goldman, Journ. Mamm., vol. 10, 



No. 4, p. 347, Nov. 11, 1929. 

 Type Locality. — Wind River Mountains, near head of Big Wind River, Fremont 

 County, Wyo. Range. — Rocky Mountain region from Wyoming, except north- 

 western part, south through southeastern Idaho, northeastern Utah, and Colorado 

 to northern New Mexico. Formerly east in prairie states to undetermined limits. 



Felis concolor oregonensis Rafinesque* 



1832. Felix [sic] oregonensis Rafinesque, Atlantic Journ., vol. 1, p. 62, June 



20, 1832. 

 1904. [Felis] concolor oregonensis Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 95, Zool. 



Ser., vol. 4, pt. 2, p. 454, Aug. 2, 1904. 

 1929. Felis concolor oregonensis Nelson and Goldman, Journ. Mamm., vol. 



10, No. 4, p. 347, Nov. 11, 1929. 

 Type Locality. — Ohanapecosh River, Mount Rainier National Park, Pierce 

 County, Wash. Range. — Cascade Mountain region from mainland of south- 

 western British Columbia south through Washington and Oregon, except upper 

 part of Rogue River Valley, to near California boundary, intergrading on east 

 with missoulensis, on west in Washington with olympus, and on south with 

 californica. 



9 The genus Puma of Pocock. Recognizable subspecies rearranged by Nelson and Gold- 

 man, Journ. Mamm., vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 346-347, Nov. 11, 1929. Subspecies revised by 

 Goldman, in Young and Goldman, The puma, mysterious American cat, pt. 2, pp. 177-276, 

 Nov. 16, 1946. 



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