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Type Locality. — Upper Missouri. Probably Badlands between Cheyenne and 

 White Rivers, S. Dak. (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 49 (December 1926), 

 p. 25, Jan. 8, 1927). Range.— Thought to have covered Badlands adjoining 

 Missouri River in North and South Dakota, extreme western Nebraska, and 

 probably into eastern Wyoming (Cowan, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 24, No. 3, p. 542, 

 November 1940). 

 Ovis canadensis mexicana Merriamf * 



1901. Ovis mexicanus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 14, p. 30, 



Apr. 5, 1901. 

 1901. Ovis canadensis mexicanus Lydekker, The great and small game of Eu- 

 rope, western and northern Asia and America, p. 11. 

 1907. Ovis canadensis gaillardi Mearnsf , U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 56, pt. 1, p. 240, 

 Apr. 13, 1907. (Gila Mountains, between Tinajas Altas and Mexican bound- 

 ary, Yuma County, Ariz. Regarded as identical with mexicana by Cowan, 

 Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 24, No. 3, p. 545, November 1940.) 

 1912. Ovis canadensis texianus V. Baileyf, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 

 25, p. 109, June 29, 1912. (Guadalupe Mountains, El Paso County, Tex. 

 Regarded as identical with mexicana by Cowan, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 24, 

 No. 3, p. 545, November 1940.) 

 1916. Ovis sheldoni Merriamf, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, p. 130, 

 September 6, 1916. (El Rosario, northern Sonora, Mexico. Regarded as 

 identical with mexicana by Cowan, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 24, No. 3, p. 545, 

 November 1940.) 

 Type Locality. — Lago de Santa Maria, Chihuahua, Mexico. Range.— Moun- 

 tain ranges of Mexico, extreme southwestern Texas, southern New Mexico and 

 Arizona; south in Sonora to Seriland, opposite Tiburon Island, and to central 

 Chihuahua; in western and northwestern Arizona along valley of Colorado River 

 intergrading with cremnobates, neisoni, and canadensis (Cowan, loc. cit.). 



Ovis canadensis calif orniana Douglas' 



1829. Ovis californianus Douglas, Zool. Journ., vol. 4, p. 332, January 1829. 



1912. Ovis cervina califomiana J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 31, p. 25, Mar. 4, 1912. 



1912. Ovis cervina sierrae Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 10, 

 No. 5, p. 144, May 9, 1912. (East slope of Mount Baxter, Sierra Nevada, 

 Inyo County, Calif.; altitude, 11,000 feet. Regarded as identical with cali- 

 fomiana by Cowan, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 24, No. 3, p. 554, November 

 1940.) 



1912. Ovis canadensis califomiana Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 396, 

 Dec. 31, 1912. 



1915. Ovis canadensis samilkamecnensis Millais, in The gun at home and 

 abroad, . . . , vol. 4, p. 324. (Similkameen Mountains, British Columbia, 

 Canada. Regarded as identical Avith californiana by Cowan, Amer. Midi. 

 Nat., vol. 24, No. 3, p. 554, November 1940.) 



1913. Ovis dalli ellioti Kowarzik, Zool. Anzeiger, vol. 41, p. 444. (Nomen 

 nudum.) 



Type Locality. — Near Mount Adams, Yakima County, Wash., (see J. A. 

 Allen, loc. cit.; Falls of the Columbia, near mouth of Deschutes River re- 



