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Subfamily simocyoninae 



Genus ICTICYON ■ Lund 

 1843. Icticyon Lund, Overs. Danske Vid. Selsk. Forh., 1842, p. 80, 1843 

 (Type, Icticyon venaticus Lund.) 



Icticyon panamensis Goldmanf * 



1912. Icticyon panamensis Goldman, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 2, 

 p. 14, Sept. 20, 1912. 



Type Locality. — Head of Rio Limon, Mount Pirri, Darien, eastern Panama. 

 Altitude, 5,000 feet. 



Family Ursidae (bears) 

 Genus EUARCTOS 81 Gray (black bears) 

 1865. Euarctos Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, pt. 3, p. 692, May 1865. 

 (Type, Ursus americanus Pallas.) 



Euarctos americanus americanus Pallas* 



1780. Ursus americanus Pallas, . . . Spicilegia zoologica, . . ., fasc. 14, p. 5. 

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



p. 608, Nov. 29, 1884. 

 1898. Ursus (Euarctos) americanus sornborgeri Bangs, Amer. Nat., vol. 32, 



p. 500, July 1898. (Okkak, Labrador, Canada. See Bangs, in GrenfelL 



Labrador: the country and the people, p. 467, 1909; and J. A. Allen, Bull. 



Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 28, pp. 1-5, Jan. 5, 1910.) 



1913. Ursus arctos schwenki Shoemakerf, Stories of great Pennsylvania 

 hunters, p. 25. (Union County, Pa. Some trimmings from the skin on 

 which this name was based are in the U. S. National Museum.) 



1918. Eu[arctos] americanus Pocock, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 9, vol. 1, 

 p. 384, May 1918. 



Type Locality. — Eastern North America. Range. — Wooded districts of North 

 America from Nova Scotia and Labrador west of the foothills of the Rocky 

 Mountains and southern part of Northwest Territories south to Georgia, northern 

 Alabama, Arkansas, and eastern Kansas. 



Euarctos americanus floridanus (Merriam)f* 



1896. Ursus floridanus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 10, p. 81, 

 Apr. 13, 1896. 



Type Locality. — Key Biscayne, Dade County, Fla. Range. — Florida west to 

 swamps of southern Alabama (A. H. Howell, North Amer. Fauna No. 45, p. 29, 

 Oct. 28, 1921), and north to southern Georgia. 



"'Icticyon Lund, 1843, regarded as identical with Speothos Lund, 1893, Ann. Sci. Nat., 

 Paris, ser. 2 (Zool.), vol. 11, pp. 223-224, 232, April 1839, by Huxley, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1880, pt. 2, p. 278, August 1880; Winge, Pattedyr-Slaegter, Publ. Univ. Zool. Mus. K</>benhavn, 

 No. 31, vol. 2, p. 234, 1924; and Simpson, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 85, p. 110, 

 Oct. 5, 1945. 



81 Canadian forms reviewed by Anderson, Ann. Rep. Provancher Soc. Nat. Hist., Quebec, 

 1944, pp. 17-33, Nov. 2, 1945. 



