ARTIODACTYLA: CERVIDAE 797 



ward in humid coast belt and among inner Coast Ranges to north side of Golden 

 Gate and San Francisco Bay, in Marin and Sonoma Counties, Calif.; east to 

 vicinity of Mount Shasta (Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 40, No. 

 2, p. 205, Sept. 26, 1933). 



Cervus merriami Nelsonf * 



1902. Cervus merriami Nelson, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 16, p. 7, 

 Jan. 16, 1902. 



Type Locality. — Head of Black River, White Mountains, Apache County, 

 Ariz. Altitude, about 9,000 feet. Range.— Formerly distributed from White 

 Mountains south to Chiricahua Mountains (Cahalane, Journ. Mamm., vol. 20, 

 No. 4, p. 438, Nov. 14, 1939) in eastern Arizona; eastward in southern New 

 Mexico through Mogollon group of mountains west of Rio Grande to Sacra- 

 mento, White and Guadalupe mountains east of Rio Grande (V. Bailey, North 

 Amer. Fauna No. 53 (December 1931), pp. 42-43, Mar. 1, 1932) ; and south- 

 ward in Texas to southern part of Guadalupe Mountains (V. Bailey, North Amer. 

 Fauna No. 25, p. 60, Oct. 24, 1905). Elk formerly were found in Wichita 

 Mountains of Oklahoma (V. Bailey, 1905, loc. cit.). 



Cervus nan no ties Merriamf* 



1905. Cervus nannodes Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 18, p. 24, 

 Feb. 2, 1905. 



Type Locality. — Buttonwillow, Kern County, Calif. Range. — Formerly (prior 

 to 1860) nearly entire San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys, especially in their 

 lower parts; occurred north at least to Butte Creek, in Butte County, and south 

 to vicinity of Bakersfield, Kern County; west through southern inner Coast 

 Ranges as far as plains of Cuyama Valley, in San Luis Obispo County and 

 extreme northern Santa Barbara County; also west to near Hernandez, San 

 Benito County, and to south end of San Francisco Bay, in Santa Clara County, 

 Calif. (Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 40, No. 2, p. 206, Sept. 26, 

 1933). 



Subfamily odocoileinae 



Genus ODOCOILEUS Rafinesque 



1780. Dama Zimmermann, Geographische Geschichte . . . , vol. 2, p. 129. 

 (Type, Dama virginiana Zimmermann. Revived by Hershkovitz, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 61, p. 43, Apr. 30, 1948; see also Hershkovitz, 

 Journ. Mamm., vol. 30, No. 1, p. 94, Feb. 14, 1949; and Morrison-Scott, 

 Journ. Mamm., vol. 32, No. 1, p. 126, Feb. 15, 1951. Not Dama Frisch, 

 Das Natur-System der vierfiissigen Thiere . . . , p. 3, 1775; type, "Der 

 Damhirsch," or Cervus dama Linneaus; see Palmer, North Amer. Fauna 

 No. 23, p. 215, Jan. 23, 1904; names applied by Frisch to genera rejected, 

 since Frisch is not consistently binominal; see also Sherborn, Index 

 Animalium: . . . , sect. 1, p. XXV, 1902; Thomas and Miller, Ann. Mag. 

 Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 16, pp. 461-164, October 1905; and Hershkovitz, 

 Journ. Mamm., vol. 29, No. 3 ; p. 272, Aug. 31, 1948.) 



1832. Odocoileus Rafinesque, Atlantic Journ. vol. 1, p. 109, autumn of 1832. 

 (Type, Odocoileus speleus Rafinesque = Cervus virginianus Zimmermann, or 



