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Type Locality. — Vicinity of Castroville, on headwaters of Medina River, 

 Medina County, Tex. Range. — From Natchitoches Parish, northwestern Louisi- 

 ana (Lowery, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. No. 13, p. 235, Nov. 22, 

 1943), west to big bend of Rio Grande in Kinney County, and north at least to 

 Montague and Cooke Counties, Tex. (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 25, p. 169, 

 October 1905) ; south presumably in Tamaulipas biotic province of Mexico. 



Lynx ruf us escuinapae J. A. Allen* 



1903. Lynx ruffus escuinapae J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 19, 

 p. 614, Nov. 14, 1903. 



Type Locality. — Escuinapa, Sinaloa, Mexico. Range. — Southern Sinaloa 

 north at least to Rio Mayo in southern Sonora, Mexico (Burt, Univ. Michigan 

 Mus. Zool. Misc. Publ. 39, p. 34, Feb. 15, 1939) . 



Order PINNIPEDIA 12 



Family Otariidae (eared seals) 



Subfamily arctocephalinae 

 Genus CALLORHINUS u Gray (northern fur seals) 



1859. Callorhinus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, pt. 3 (October 1859- 

 February 1860) , p. 359. (Type, Phoca ursina Linnaeus.) 



1892. Callotaria Palmer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 7, p. 156, July 27, 

 1892. (Substitute for Callorhinus, assumed to be a homonym of Cat- 

 lirhinus Blanchard, 1850. This is not in conformity with the provisions of 

 the International Code, Article 36, with accompanying recommendation, 

 and Opinion 25 of the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, 

 Smithsonian Inst. Spec. Publ. 1938, pp. 59-61, July 1910.) 



Callorhinus ursinus cynocephalus ( Walbaum) * 



1792. Siren cynocephala Walbaum, in Artedi, Petr. Artedi . . . ichthyologica, 



pt. 3, Genera piscium, p. 560. (Based on the sea ape of Steller; see 



Stejneger, Georg Wilhelm Steller . . . , p. 285, August 1936.) 

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



p. 607, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1898. Callorhinus alascanus Jordan and Clark, in Jordan, The fur seals and 



fur-seal islands of the North Pacific Ocean, pt. 1, p. 45. (Pribilof Islands, 



Alaska. See Mayer, Journ. Mamm., vol. 30, No. 3, p. 316, Aug. 17, 1949.) 

 1936. Callotaria ursina cynocephala Stejneger, Georg Wilhelm Steller . . . , 



p. 285, August 1936. 

 1940. Callorhinus ursina cynocephala Hall, California Fish and Game, vol. 26, 



No. 1, p. 76, January 1940. 



12 For classification of the pinnipeds, see Boetticher, Zeitschr. Saug., Berlin, vol. 9, No. 3, 

 p. 359, Dec. 30, 1934; and Simpson, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 85, pp. 121-123, 232-233, 

 Oct. 5, 1945. 



18 For discussion of the names proposed for this genus see Palmer, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 7, p. 156, July 27, 1892, and vol. 14, pp. 133-134, Aug. 9, 1901; J. A. Allen, 

 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 16, pp. 115-118, Mar. 15, 1902; Jordan and Clark, in Jordan, 

 The fur seals and fur-seal islands of the North Pacific Ocean, pt. 3, p. 2, November 1899. 



