ARTIODACTYLA: CERVIDAE 811 



to eastern Yukon Territory and Mackenzie delta, Northwest Territories; south- 

 ward formerly to Red River Valley and Turtle Mountains region of North Da- 

 kota (V. Bailey, North Amer. Fauna No. 49 (December 1926), pp. 31-32, Jan. 

 8, 1927) and northern Wisconsin. 

 Alces aloes shirasi Nelsonf * 



1914. Alces americanus shirasi Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 27, 

 p. 72, Apr. 25, 1914. 



1952. Alces alces shirasi Peterson, Contrib. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., No. 34, 

 p. 23, Oct. 15, 1952. 



Type Locality. — Snake River, 4 miles south of Yellowstone Park, Teton Coun- 

 ty, Wyo. Range. — Western Wyoming, eastern and northern Idaho, and western 

 Montana, northward into southeastern British Columbia. Formerly in Blue 

 Mountains of southeastern Washington (Dice, Journ. Mamm., vol. 1, No. 1, p. 20, 

 Nov. 28, 1919) and recorded also in Ferry County, northeastern Washington 

 (Scheffer and Dalquest, Journ. Mamm., vol. 25, No. 4, p. 413, Dec. 12, 1944). 

 Accidental in northeastern Utah (Durrant, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 6, p. 461, Aug. 10, 1952). 



Alces alces gigas Miller f * 



1899. Alces gigas Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 13, p. 57, May 29, 



1899. 

 1934. Alces americanus gigas Hall, Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 40, No. 



9, p. 381, Nov. 5, 1934. 

 1952. Alces alces gigas Peterson, Contrib. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., No. 34, 



p. 21, Oct. 15, 1952. 

 Type Locality. — North side of Tustumena Lake, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 

 Range. — Wooded parts of Alaska, western Yukon in Northwest Territories, and 

 northwestern Biitish Columbia (see Peterson, Occ. Pap. Roy. Ontario Mus. Zool., 

 No. 9, p. 2, May 25, 1950). Recorded north to Anaktuvuk and John River 

 Valleys (Rausch, Journ. Mamm., vol. 31, No. 4, p. 466, Nov. 21, 1950). 



Genus RANGIFER M Hamilton-Smith (reindeer and caribou) 



1827. Rangifer Hamilton-Smith, in Griffith, The animal kingdom ... by the 

 Baron Cuvier . . ., vol. 5, p. 304. (Type, Cervus tarandus Linnaeus.) 



1827. Tarandus Billberg, Synopsis faunae Scandinaviae, p. 22. (Type, Cervus 

 tarandus Linnaeus.) 



Rangifer arctncus arctieus (Richardson) * (Barren Ground caribou) 



1829. Cervus tarandus var. arctica Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Ameri- 



cana; . . ., vol. 1, p. 241. 

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



p. 592, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1896. Rangifer arctieus J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 234, 



Nov. 21, 1896. 



"Revised by Jacobi, Das Rentier, eine zoologische Monographic der Gattung Rangifer, 

 Zool. Anzeiger, vol. 96, Suppl., pp. vii+264, figs. 32, pis. 6, November 1931. See also Murie, 

 North Amer. Fauna No. 54 (June), pp. 93, figs. 16, pis. 10, Aug. 8, 1935; and Anderson, 

 The present status and distribution of the big game mammals of Canada, in Trans. Third 

 North American Wildlife Conference, Dept. Mines and Resources, Ottawa, pp. 390-40'\ 

 and maps 1-11, 1938. 



