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1888. B[ison] bison Jordan, Manual of the vertebrate animals of the Northern 



United States, . . . , ed. 5, p. 337. 

 1915. Bison americanus pennsylvanicus Shoemaker. A Pennsylvania bison 

 hunt, p. 9. (Pennsylvania. Description based on hearsay and therefore 

 regarded as invalid by Skinner and Kaisen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 89, p. 163, Oct. 31, 1947. See Opinion 2, International Commission on 

 Zoological Nomenclature, Smithsonian Inst. Spec. Publ. 1938, pp. 5-6, 

 July 1910.) 

 1933. Bison bison septemtrionalis [sic] Figgins, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., vol. 12, p. 28, Dec. 5, 1933. (Six miles northeast of Palmer, Merrick 

 County, Nebr. Regarded as identical with bison by Skinner and Kaisen, 

 Bull. Amer. Mas. Nat. Hist., vol. 89, pp. 161, 163, Oct. 31, 1947.) 

 Type Locality. — Mexico (see Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, pt. 1, 

 p. 154, Mar. 22, 1911. Southern or southeastern United States, not Mexico, 

 regarded as type locality by Reed, Journ. Mamm., vol. 33, No. 3, p. 392, 

 Aug. 19, 1952). Range. — Formerly distributed from Saskatchewan River in 

 Alberta and Saskatchewan, and western Manitoba southward through Mis- 

 sissippi River drainage region to Gulf coast of Mississippi, Louisiana, and 

 Texas; westward into Montana east of continental divide, Wyoming, Colorado, 

 New Mexico, and northeastern Mexico (J. A. Allen, Mem. Geol. Surv. Kentucky, 

 vol. 1, pt. 2, pp. 128-130, 1876) ; and eastward south of Great Lakes to south- 

 western New York, western Pennsylvania, western Virginia, western North Caro- 

 lina, western South Carolina, northern Georgia, northwestern Florida (Swanton, 

 Journ. Mamm., vol. 19, No. 3, p. 379, Aug. 18, 1938; Swanton, Journ. Mamm., 

 vol. 22, No. 3, p. 322, Aug. 14, 1941; Schorger, Journ. Mamm., vol. 26, No. 4, 

 pp. 432^133, Feb. 12, 1945), and northern Alabama (Skinner and Kaisen, op. 

 cit., p. 158, map 3). 



Bison bison athabascae Rhoads* (woodland bison) 



1898. Bison bison athabascae Rhoads, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 49 (1897) , p. 498, Jan. 18, 1898. 



1932. Bison bison oregonus V. Baileyf, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 45, 

 p. 48, Apr. 2, 1932. (Malheur Lake, Harney County, Oreg. Regarded as 

 identical with athabascae by Skinner and Kaisen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 89, pp. 164, 166, Oct. 31, 1947.) 



1933. Bison bison haningtoni Figgins, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 12, 

 No. 4, p. 30, Dec. 5, 1933. (Head of Rock Creek, northeast South Park, 

 Park County, Colo. Regarded as identical with athabascae by Skinner and 

 Kaisen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat Hist, vol. 89, pp. 164-166, Oct. 31, 1947.) 



Type Locality. — Within 50 miles southwest of Fort Resolution, Mackenzie Dis- 

 trict, Northwest Territories, Canada. Range. — Formerly distributed from 

 Seward Peninsula and Arctic coast of Alaska southward through Yukon, south- 

 western Mackenzie, northeastern British Columbia (Fort St. John region and 

 Liard River; Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 183, Jan. 24, 

 1947), Alberta, western Montana, Idaho, eastern Oregon, northeastern California 

 (Merriam, Journ. Mamm., vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 211-214, Aug. 9, 1926), northern 

 Nevada, western Wyoming, Utah (Presnall, Journ. Mamm., vol. 19, No. 1, p. Ill, 

 Feb. 13, 1938), and western Colorado (Skinner and Kaisen, op. cit., p. 158, 

 map 3) . 



