ARTIODACTYLA: BOVIDAE 821 



Ovibos most-hut U8 wardi Lydekker* 



1900. Ovibos moschatus wardi Lydekker, Nature, vol. 63, p. 157, Dec. 13, 

 1900. 



1909. O[vibos] moschatus melvillensis Kowarzik, Zool. Anzeiger, vol. 33, p. 

 617, Nov. 10, 1908. (Melville Island. See Kowarzik, Fauna Arct., vol. 5, 

 p. 90, May 24, 1910.) 



Type Locality. — East Greenland. Clavering Island. Range. — Coast of East 

 Greenland from above lat. 70° N., ranging north around North Greenland, and 

 thence southward along west coast to about lat. 81° N. Formerly through Can- 

 adian Arctic Archipelago from northern Ellesmere Island and Devon Island, 

 south to Lancaster Sound, westward to Prince Patrick Island, Melville Island, 

 Banks Island, and Victoria Island. Extinct on Banks Island since about be- 

 ginning of present century and probably, if not entirely, exterminated on Victoria 

 Island a few years later. Still found in some numbers from northern Ellesmere 

 Island to Melville Island (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 

 184, Jan. 24, 1947) . 



Genus OVIS 25 Linnaeus (sheep) 

 1758. Ovis Linneaus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 70. (Type, Ovis aries 

 Linnaeus.) 



Ovis canadensis canadensis Shaw* (mountain sheep) 



1804. Ovis canadensis Shaw, Naturalist's Misc., vol. 51, text to pi. 610. ( ? pos- 

 sibly December 1803.) 



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

 p. 592, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1891. Ovis canadensis Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 5, p. 81, July 30, 

 1891. 



1900. Nemorhoedus palmeri Craginf, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. 11, p. 611, 

 Aug. 10, 1900. (Cave on Glen Eyrie estate, about 5 miles northwest of 

 Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colo. For status see Miller, Smith- 

 sonian Misc. Coll., vol. 82, No. 14, pp. 1-2, Dec. 22, 1930.) 



Type Locality. — Mountains on Bow River, near Exshaw, Alberta, Canada. 

 (See Preble, in Thompson, David Thompson's narrative of his explorations in 

 western America, 1784-1812, ed. J. B. Tyrrell, Toronto, p. Ixxxi, 1916.) 

 Range. — In Canada confined to Rocky Mountains in which it ranges north to vicin- 

 ity of Wapiti Pass some 120 miles south of Peace River; south through western 

 Montana, eastern Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, and into Colorado (Cowan, Amer. Midi. 

 Nat., vol. 24, No. 3, p. 533, November 1940), as well as northeastern Nevada 

 (Hall, Mammals of Nevada, p. 640, July 1, 1946), eastern Oregon (V. Bailey, 

 North Amer. Fauna No. 55 (June), p. 63, Aug. 29, 1936), and formerly eastern 

 Washington (Dalquest, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 406, Apr. 

 9, 1948). 



Ovis canadensis auduboni Merriamf* 



1901. Ovis canadensis auduboni Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol 

 14, p. 31, Apr. 5, 1901. 



" Revised by Cowan, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 505-580, November 1940. 



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