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District, Northwest Territories, are probably referable to this form. Limits of 

 range very imperfectly known (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946). 

 p. 186, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Oreaninos kennedyi Elliot 



1900. Oreamnus [sic] kennedyi Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 46, Zool. Ser., 

 vol. 3, p. 3, June 20, 1900. 



Type Locality. — Mountains at mouth of Copper River, opposite Kayak Island, 

 Alaska. Range. — Recorded also from area between headwaters of Knik and 

 Matanuska Rivers, Alaska (Osgood, North Amer. Fauna No. 21, p. 62, Sept. 

 26, 1901), and Knik, Alaska (Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 115, Zool. Ser., 

 vol. 8, p. 95, Mar. 4, 1907). 



Genus OVIBOS 2 * Blainville (musk oxen) 

 1816. Ovibos Blainville, Bull. Soc. Philom., Paris, p. 76. (Type, Bos 



moschatus Zimmermann. ) 

 1911. Bosovis Kowarzik, Zool. Anzeiger, vol. 37, p. 107, Feb. 14, 1911. (Type, 



Bos moschatus Zimmermann.) 



Ovibos moschatus moschatus (Zimmermann) * 



1780. Bos moschatus Zimmermann, Geographische Geschichte . . . , vol. 2, 



p. 86. 

 1822. Ovibus moschatus Desmarest, Mammalogie, . . . , pt. 2, p. 492 [in 



Encyclopedic methodique . . .]. 

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



p. 592, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1908. 0[vibos] moschatus mackenzianus Kowarzik, Zool. Anzeiger, vol. 33, 



p. 617, Nov. 10, 1908. (Great Slave Lake, Mackenzie District, Northwest 



Territories, Canada. See Kowarzik, Fauna Arct., vol. 5, p. 89, May 24, 



1910.) 



Type Locality. — Between Seal and Churchill Rivers, Manitoba, Canada. 

 Range. — Formerly generally distributed in suitable areas from west side of Hud- 

 son Bay (except in range of niphoecus) to Arctic coast and Arctic Alaska west 

 to Point Barrow region; now restricted to a few small isolated bands from upper 

 Thelon and upper Back Rivers, probably intergrading with niphoecus in some 

 areas; scattered south of Bathurst Inlet, and a few in region north of Great Bear 

 Lake (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 183, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Ovibos moschatus niphoecus Elliot 



1905. Ovibos moschatus niphoecus Elliot, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 18, 

 p. 135, Apr. 18, 1905. 



Type Locality. — Head of Wager River, Keewatin District, Northwest Terri- 

 tories, Canada. Range. — Undetermined. Musk oxen are not known to occur 

 east of Repulse Bay; J. A. Allen (Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., new ser., vol. 1, 

 p. 190, March 1913) states that they probably range north from Chesterfield 

 Inlet, Baker Lake, and Dubawant River to Arctic coast of mainland, but appar- 

 ently only specimens from Wager Inlet region were examined (see Anderson, 

 Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 183, Jan. 24, 1947). 



31 Revised by J. A. Allen, Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hi9t., new ser., vol. 1, pp. 103-226, March 

 1913. 



