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garded as the type locality by V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 55 (June), pp. 

 64-65, Aug. 29, 1936) . Range. — Formerly from Chilcotin River, British Colum- 

 bia, south through Cascades of Washington and Oregon and Sierra Nevada of 

 California to vicinity of Mount Whitney (Cowan, loc. cit.) ; and western Nevada 

 south probably to Mineral County (Hall, Mammals of Nevada, p. 639, July 1, 

 1946). 



Ovis canadensis nelson i Merriamf * 



1897. Ovis nelsoni Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 11, p. 218, 

 July 15, 1897. 



1898. Ovis canadensis nelsoni Lydekker, Wild oxen, sheep, and goats of all 

 lands, living and extinct, p. 208. 



Type Locality. — Grapevine Mountains [high limestone ridge forming middle 

 of range, about 5 miles southerly from Grapevine Peak], on boundary between 

 Inyo County, Calif., and Esmeralda County, Nev., just south of lat. 37° N. 

 Range. — California, south and east of Sierras and eastward locally througl 

 desert ranges of Nevada (Cowan, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 24, No. 3, p. 560, 

 November 1940) . 



Ovis canadensis cremnobates Elliot* 



1904. Ovis cervina cremnobates Elliot, Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 87, Zool. 



Ser., vol. 3, No. 14 (December 1903), p. 239, Jan. 7, 1904. 

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



Dec. 31, 1912. 

 Type Locality. — Mattomi, Sierra San Pedro Marlir, Baja California, Mexico. 

 Range. — Extreme southern California and northern Baja California for an un- 

 determined distance southward (Cowan, Amer. Midi. Nat., vol. 24, No. 3, p. 565, 

 November 1940) . 



Ovis canadensis weemsi Goldmanf * 



1937. Ovis canadensis weemsi Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 

 50, p. 30, Apr. 2, 1937. 



Type Locality. — Cajon de Tecomaja, Sierra de la Giganta, about 30 miles 

 south of Cerro de la Giganta, southern Baja California, Mexico. Altitude, 2,000 

 feet. Range. — Sierra de la Giganta and northward, grading toward cremnobates 

 in Sierra de San Borjas in central part of Peninsula. 



Ovis dalli dalli Nelsonf* (white sheep) 



1884. Ovis montana dalli Nelson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7, p. 13, June 3, 



1884. 

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



p. 592, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1897. Ovis dalli J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 9, p. 112, Apr. 



8, 1897. 

 Type Locality. — Mountains south of Fort Yukon on west bank of Yukon River, 

 Alaska; probably Tanana Hills. Range.— Mountains of Alaska, Yukon Terri- 

 tory, Northwest Territories west of Mackenzie River, south in main chain of 

 Rockies [Mackenzie Mountains] to Nahanni River. In northern British Colum- 

 bia and central Yukon intergrades broadly with stonei, but typical dalli is to be 

 found in St. Elias Range in northwestern British Columbia bordering on boun- 



