ARTIODACTYLA: CERVIDAE 815 



Rangifer caribou caribou (Gmelin) * (woodland caribou) 



1788. [Cervus tarandus] caribou Gmelin, Caroli a Linne systema naturae 

 . . . , vol. 1, p. 177. 



1854. Rangifer caribou Audubon and Bachman, Viviparous Quadrupeds of 

 North America, text, vol. 3, p. 111. 



1884. Rangifer tarandus caribou True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., 

 Circ. 29) , p. 592, Nov. 29, 1884. 



1912. Rangifer caribou caribou Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 392, Dec. 

 31, 1912. 



Type Locality. — Eastern Canada [ = Province of Quebec]. Range. — Formerly 

 found in most parts of Nova Scotia but has been extinct in that province since 

 about 1924; possibly exists in very small numbers in northeastern New Bruns- 

 wick; in Quebec found locally on Gaspe Peninsula (Mount Albert, 4,000 feet) 

 and in some numbers in suitable areas north of Gulf of St. Lawrence and prob- 

 ably in southern Labrador; irregularly in wooded areas in western Quebec; in 

 Ontario considered to have disappeared entirely from east of a line drawn from 

 east end of Lake Superior to James Bay ; one small band on Shakespeare Island 

 in Lake Superior, a few about Lake Nipigon, Lake of the Woods, and Rainy Lake 

 area in western Ontario; local bands in small numbers north of Canadian Na- 

 tional Railway lines in northern Ontario (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 

 (1946), p. 180, Jan. 24, 1947). Formerly present in Michigan (Burt, Mammals 

 of Michigan, p. 262, 1946) and northern Minnesota (Swanson, Minnesota Dept. 

 Conserv. Tech. Bull. 2, p. 100, 1945). Recorded also from northern Somerset 

 County, Maine (Palmer, Journ. Mamm., vol. 30, No. 4, p. 437, Nov. 17, 1949). 



Rangifer caribou sylvestris (Richardson) * 



1829. Cervus tarandus var. /? sylvestris Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Ameri- 



cana; . . . , vol. 1, p. 250. 

 1912. Rangifer caribou sylvestris Hollister, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, 



No. 35, p. 4, Feb. 7, 1912. 

 1915. Tarandus rangifer keewatinensis Millais, in The gun at home and 

 abroad, . . . , vol. 4„ p. 257. (Central and northern Manitoba, Keewatin, 

 North and [South] Saskatchewan and as far north as the Peace River and 

 Lake Athabasca.) 

 Type Locality. — Southwestern shores of Hudson Bay. Range. — In parts of 

 northwestern Ontario, northern Manitoba, northern Saskatchewan, northern Al- 

 berta, and wooded parts of Mackenzie district as far north as Great Bear Lake 

 and lower Mackenzie Valley, Canada (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 

 (1946), p. 181, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Rangifer caribou terraenovae Bangs* 



1896. Rangifer terraenovae Bangs, Preliminary description of the Newfound- 

 land caribou, Boston, p. 1, Nov. 11, 1896. 

 1896. Rangifer terraenovae J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, 



p. 233, Nov. 21, 1896. (Grand Lake, Newfoundland.) 

 1931. Rangifer caribou terraenovae Jacobi, Zool. Anzeiger, Leipzig, vol. 96, 



Suppl., p. 122, November 1931. 

 Type Locality. — Codroy, Newfoundland. Range. — Restricted to Newfound- 

 land. 



