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Type Locality. — Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. Range. — Most of central and 

 northern Alaska, excluding Alaska Peninsula and Unimak Island; also in west- 

 ern Yukon, Canada, more sparingly to the eastward; the form is absent from 

 most of southern coastal belt of Alaska, having been exterminated on Kenai Pen- 

 insula, and is scarce in western and parts of northern Alaska (Murie, loc. cit.). 

 Caribou found in small strip of Northwest Territories west of Mackenzie River 

 delta are also referable to this form (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 

 (1946), p. 180, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Rangif er arcticus granti J. A. Allen* 



1902. Rangifer granti J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 16, p. 122, 



Mar. 31, 1902. 

 1935. Rangif er arcticus granti Murie, North Amer. Fauna No. 54 (June) , p. 80, 



Aug. 8, 1935. 

 Type Locality. — Western end of Alaska Peninsula, opposite Popof Island, 

 Alaska. Range. — Alaska Peninsula and Unimak Island, formerly Unga and 

 other Islands at west end of Alaska Peninsula and probably northward some dis- 

 tance along Bering seacoast (Murie, loc. cit.). 



Rangif er arcticus asiaticus Jacobi* 



1931. Rangifer arcticus asiaticus Jacobi, Zool. Anzeiger, Leipzig, vol. 96, 

 Suppl., p. 85, November 1931. 



Type Locality. — Kolyma, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Range. — A total of 1,280 reindeer 

 were transported to northwestern Alaska, mainly on Seward Peninsula, between 

 years 1891 and 1902 from Chukotsk Peninsula and coast of Anadir Gulf; exist- 

 ing herds of domesticated reindeer in Alaska are mainly descendants of these 

 introduced animals (Jackson, Report on introduction of domestic reindeer into 

 Alaska, Senate Doc. Ill, 54 Cong. 1 Sess., vol. 4, pp. 9-16, 1896; Palmer, U. S. 

 Dept. Agr. Misc. Publ. 207, pp. 1-40, November 1934) . Reindeer from herds 

 at Buckland, Alaska, were driven across northern Alaska to Arctic coast region 

 west of Mackenzie River delta in 1933, the main herd of 2,730 animals crossing 

 the Mackenzie River in 1935; as the herds increased in region just east of Macken- 

 zie delta and on Richards Island they were divided and distributed eastward to 

 lower Anderson River (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 187, 

 Jan. 24, 1947). 



Rangifer pearyi J. A. Allen* 



1902. Rangifer pearyi J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 16, p. 409, 

 Oct. 31, 1902. 



Type Locality— EWesmere Land, lat. 79° N., Franklin District, Northwest Ter- 

 ritories, Canada. Range. — Ellesmere Island (Craig Harbour, Fram Fjiord), 

 Sverdrup Islands (Hyperit Point, Axel Heiberg Island), and probably other 

 islands in nothern part of Canadian Arctic Archipelago, but specimens from some 

 of the larger islands (Devon, Bathurst, Cornwallis, Melville, and Prince of Wales 

 Islands) are needed for determination of range of this species or its relationship 

 with other forms of caribou. Caribou of northwestern Greenland north of Kane 

 Basin are perhaps referable to this form (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 

 (1946), p. 180, Jan. 24, 1947). 



