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nesota (Roberts, Minnesota Dept. Conserv. Techn. Bull. 2, pp. 12-14, 1945), 

 North Dakota (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 49 (December 1926), pp. 33- 

 36, Jan. 8, 1927), and southern Alberta, southward at least to northern Georgia, 

 Tennessee (Kellogg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 86, pp. 295-297, Feb. 14, 1939) , 

 Arkansas, and Oklahoma. (See also V. Bailey, Journ. Mamm., vol. 18, No. 1, 

 p. 104, Feb. 11, 1937.) 



Cervus canadensis nianitobensis Millais 



1915. C[ervus] c[anadensis] manitobensis Millais, in The gun at home and 

 abroad, . . . , vol. 4, p. 281. 



Type Locality. — Manitoba and eastern Saskatchewan, Canada. Range. — 

 Formerly widely distributed over southern parts of prairie provinces from at 

 least Red River, Manitoba, to Cypress Hills, Alberta (Soper, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 27, No. 2, p. 150, May 14, 1946) . Present range, southwestern Manitoba, 

 mostly in Riding Mountain region, and central Saskatchewan, mostly in park 

 land at northern edge of Great Plains region (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 

 102 (1946) , p. 174, Jan. 24, 1947) . 



Cervus canadensis nelsoni V. Bailey f * 



1935. Cervus canadensis nelsoni V. Bailey, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 

 38, p. 188, Nov. 15, 1935. 



Type Locality. — Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. Range. — Rocky Moun- 

 tains, from north-central New Mexico (San Juan Mountains; V. Bailey, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 53 (December 1931), pp. 39-41, Mar. 1, 1932) to northwest- 

 ern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia (Prairie River), Canada (An- 

 derson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull 102 (1946), p. 175, Jan. 24, 1947) ; southward 

 through Idaho (Rust, Journ. Mamm., vol. 27, No. 4, p. 311, Nov. 25, 1946) into 

 Utah and Nevada (White Pine County; Hall, Mammals of Nevada, p. 618, July 

 1, 1946) ; westward to northeastern Oregon (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 

 55 (June), p. 78, Aug. 29, 1936) and eastern Washington (Dalquest, Univ. Kan- 

 sas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 394, Apr. 9, 1948) . Introduced into Virginia 

 (Handley and Patton, Wild mammals of Virginia, p. 192, 1947), Texas (Cul- 

 berson County; Davis and Robertson, Journ. Mamm., vol. 25, No. 3, p. 272, 

 Sept. 8, 1944), Oregon, and Washington (Couch, Murrelet, vol. 16, No. 1, 

 pp. 3-6, January 1935). 



Cervus canadensis roosevelti Merriamf* 



1827. C[ervus] occidentalis Hamilton-Smith, in Griffith, The animal kingdom 

 ... by the Baron Cuvier . . . , vol. 4, p. 101. (Application of name re- 

 garded as doubtful by V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 55 (June), p. 

 81, footnote, Aug. 29, 1936.) 

 1866. C[ervus] canadensis occidentalis Blyth, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, 



pt. 3, p. 618, April 1866. 

 1897. Cervus roosevelti Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 11, p. 



272, Dec. 17, 1897. 

 Type Locality. — Mount Elaine, on ridge between heads of Hoh, Elwha and 

 Soleduc Rivers, near Mount Olympus, Mason County, Wash. Range. — Western 

 slopes of Cascade Mountains and thence to coast in Washington (Dalquest, Univ. 

 Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, p. 394, Apr. 9, 1948) and Oregon (V. 

 Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 55 (June), p. 81, Aug. 29, 1936), and south- 



