ARTIODACTYLA: BOVIDAE 819 



Subfamily Caprinae 

 Genus OREAMNOS Rafinesque (mountain goats) 



1817. Oreamnos Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Mag., vol. 2, p. 44, November 

 1817. (Type, Mazama dorsata Rahnesque—Rupicapra americana Blain- 

 ville.) 

 Oreaninos americanus americanus (Blainville) * 



1816. R[upicapra] americana Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, p. 80. 

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



p. 592, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1912. Oreamnos americanus americanus Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, vol. 25, p. 186, Dec. 24, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Cascade Range, near the Columbia River, in Oregon or Wash- 

 ington (regarded as probably Mount Adams, Wash., the point where goats 

 come nearest the Columbia River, by Dalquest, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 2, p. 409, Apr. 9, 1948) . Range. — Cascade Mountain region in Wash- 

 ington and southwestern British Columbia (Kimsquit) ; present distribution 

 irregular and region of intergradation with columbiae not determined (Anderson, 

 Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 ( 1946) , p. 186, Jan. 24, 1947) . White goats do not 

 now and perhaps never did inhabit Oregon (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna 

 No. 55 (June), p. 61, Aug. 29, 1936). 



Oreamnos americanus missoulae J. A. Allen* 



1904. Oreamnos montanus missoulae J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 20, p. 20, Feb. 10 5 1904. 



1912. Oreamnos americanus missoulae Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 25, p. 186, Dec. 24, 1912. 



Type Locality. — Missoula, Missoula County, Mont. Range. — From Sawtooth 

 mountains in Blaine County, Idaho (Davis, The Recent mammals of Idaho, 

 p. 379, Apr. 5, 1939), and western Montana north along Rocky Mountains and 

 adjacent ranges to western Alberta (Banff, Spray Creek, Closson, Mount Robson, 

 Bow River, head) and eastern British Columbia (Golden) nearly to Peace River 

 (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 186, Jan. 24, 1947). A 

 single record for Stevens County, northeastern Washington (Scheffer and Dal- 

 quest, Journ. Mamm., vol. 25. No. 4, p. 412, Dec. 12, 1944). Introduced in 

 1924 into Black Hills of South Dakota (Harmon, Journ. Mamm., vol. 25, No. 2, 

 p. 149, May 26, 1944) . 



Oreamnos americanus columbiae Hollister* 



1904. Oreamnos montanus columbianus J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 20, p. 20, Feb. 10, 1904. (Not Capra columbiana Desmoulins, 

 1823.) 

 1912. Oreamnos americanus columbiae Hollister, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



vol. 25, p. 186, Dec. 24, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Shesley Mountains, northwestern British Columbia, Canada. 

 Range. — High mountains of northwestern British Columbia and southern Yukon 

 (Ida Lake, Lake Arkell, Lake Bennett, Pelly River, head), irregular in distri- 

 bution. Immature specimens from Mackenzie Mountains (Nahanni region, 

 Glacier Lake in Iron Mountains, 4,500 feet) in southwestern part of Mackenzie 



