CARNIVORA: MUSTELIDAE 729 



Martes pennanti columbiana Goldmanf * 



1935. Martes pennanti columbiana Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 48, p. 176, Nov. 15, 1935. 



Type Locality. — Stuart Lake, near headwaters of Fraser River, British Colum- 

 bia, Canada. Range. — Rocky Mountain region and central and northern British 

 Columbia (Fort Nelson), north to extreme southern parts of Yukon; south, for- 

 merly at least, to central Idaho (Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), 

 p. 60, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Martes pennanti pacifica (Rhoads)* 



1898. Mustela canadensis pacifica Rhoads, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, new ser., 

 vol. 19, p. 435, September 1898. (Regarded by Grinnell, Dixon, and Lins- 

 dale, The fur-bearing mammals of California, vol. 1, pp. 216-217, Aug. 10, 

 1937, as identical with pennanti. See also Goldman, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 48, p. 177, Nov. 15, 1935.) 

 1912. Martes pennanti pacifica Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 94, Dec. 31, 



1912. 

 Type Locality. — Lake Keechelus, Kittitas County, Wash. Altitude, 3,000 feet. 

 Range. — Forested parts of higher mountains from north-central Kern County, 

 Calif., through Sierra Nevada and vicinities of Mount Shasta and Lassen 

 Peak, western and northeastern Oregon, Washington, and western British Colum- 

 bia to southern Alaska Panhandle (see Grinnell, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 

 vol. 40, No. 2, p. 101, Sept. 26, 1933; and Anderson, Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 

 102 (1946), p. 60, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Genus MUSTELA M Linnaeus 

 1758. Mustela Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, vol. 1, p. 45. (Type, 

 Mustela erminea Linnaeus. See Thomas, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1911, 

 pt. 1, p. 138, Mar. 22, 1911.) 



Subgenus MUSTELA Linnaeus 



Mustela erminea arctica (Merriam)f* 



1896. Putorius arcticus Merriam, North Amer. Fauna No. 11, p. 15, June 30, 



1896. 

 1904. Putorius audax Barrett-Hamilton, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 13, 

 p. 392, May 1904 (Discovery Bay, north Greenland, probably Ellesmere 

 Island). 

 1912. Mustela arctica arctica Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 97, Dec. 31, 



1912. 

 1912. Mustela audax Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 79, p. 97, Dec. 31, 1912. 

 1945. Mustela erminea arctica Hall, Journ. Mamm., vol. 26, No. 2 (May), 



p. 179, July 13, 1945. 

 Type Locality. — Point Barrow, Alaska. Range. — Arctic regions of Alaska 

 and western Canada from Pacific Ocean to Smith Sound; from northern limit 

 of land south approximately to a line from Skagway through Fort Goodhope, 

 north shore of Great Bear Lake, south shore of Clinton Golden Lake, north shore 

 of Baker Lake, west end of Wagner Bay to south end of Committee Bay (Hall, 

 Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, p. 97, Dec. 27, 1951 ) . 



w Revised by Hall, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, pp. 1-466, Dec. 27, 1951. 



