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Type Locality. — Near mouth of Prairie Creek, South Nahanni River, Macken- 

 zie District, Northwest Territories, Canada; lat. about 61°30' N., long, about 

 124°30' W. Range. — Western part of Mackenzie District, probably the pre- 

 vailing form of black bear from Liard River northward to near limit of trees 

 north of Arctic Circle; westward into central and southern Yukon at least to 

 Teslin Lake; Canol Road (Mile 139, Pelly River near junction with Ross River; 

 Nisutlin River, 24 miles from Johnson Crossing) ; mountains back of Teslin 

 Lake; probably also parts of extreme northern British Columbia north of Liard 

 River and south of Teslin Lake (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), 

 p. 38, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Euarctos carlottae (Osgood) f* 



1901. Ursus (Euarctos) carlottae Osgood, North Amer. Fauna No. 21, p. 30, 

 Sept. 26, 1901. 



Type Locality. — Massett, Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Islands, British 

 Columbia, Canada. Range. — Restricted to Queen Charlotte Islands. 



Genus URSUS 82 Linnaeus 



1758. Ursus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 47. (Type, Ursus 



arctos Linnaeus.) 

 1825. Danis Gray, Ann. Philos., vol. 26, p. 60, July 1825. (Type, Ursus ferox 



Desmarest= Ursus horribilis Ord.) 

 1918. Vetularctos Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 41, p. 131, Feb. 9, 1918. 



(Type, Vetularctos inopinatus Merriam.) 



horribilis — group 



Ursus horribilis horribilis Ord* 



1815. Ursus horribilis Ord, in [Guthrie], A new geographical, historical, and 

 commercial grammar; . . . , Philadelphia, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 291 (described 

 on p. 299). 

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



p. 608, Nov. 29, 1884. (Part.) 

 Type Locality. — Missouri River, a little above mouth of Poplar River, north- 

 eastern Montana. Range.— Great Plains bordering Missouri River from western 

 Kansas (Hibbard, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., vol. 47, No. 1, p. 67, September 

 1944) to Plains region of southwestern Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta in 

 former times; now probably extinct (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 

 (1946), p. 39, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Ursus horribilis bairdi Merriamf* 



1914. Ursus bairdi Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 27, p. 192, Aug. 



13, 1914. 

 1918. Ursus horribilis bairdi Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 41, p. 19, 



Feb. 9, 1918. 

 Type Locality. — Blue River, Summit County, Colo. Range. — Southern Rocky 

 Mountain region from San Juan Mountains, southwestern Colorado, northward 

 through Wyoming to Montana, and perhaps to southeastern British Columbia. 

 Probably a mountain animal, while its neighbor horribilis was a plains species. 



85 Revised by Merriam, North. Amer. Fauna No. 41, Feb. 9, 1918. 



