ARTIODACTYLA: CERVIDAE 799 



Type Locality. — Sitka, Alaska. Range. — Coast and coastal islands of south- 

 eastern Alaska; from Dall Island north to Inian Island, Icy Straits, and on 

 mainland from Port Simpson, British Columbia, north to Juneau, Alaska, and 

 casually as far north as Atlin, British Columbia; southern limit of range unknown 

 (Cowan, loc. cit.) . Coast deer have been reported recently in Teslin and Little 

 Atlin sections of southern Yukon, as far north as Nisutlin River (Anderson, Nat. 

 Mus. Canada Bull. 102 (1946), p. 176, Jan. 24, 1947). 



Odocoilens hemionus columbianus (Richardson)* (Columbian black- 

 tailed deer) 

 1829. Cervus macrotis var. columbianus Richardson, Fauna Boreali-Ameri- 



cana; . . . , vol. 1, p. 257. 

 1852. Cariacus lewisii Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1850, pt. 18, p. 239, 



Jan. 24, 1852. (Northwest coast of North America.) 

 1852. Cariacus punctulatus Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1850, pt. 18, p. 



239, Jan. 24, 1852. (California.) 

 1884. Cariacus columbianus True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (App., Circ. 



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

 1898. Odocoileus columbianus Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 12. 



p. 100, Apr. 30, 1898. 

 1898. Odocoileus columbianus scaphiotus Merriamf, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, vol. 12, p. 101, Apr. 30, 1898. (Laguna Ranch, Gabilan Range, San 

 Benito County, Calif. Regarded as identical with columbianus by Cowan, 

 California Fish and Game, vol. 22, No. 3, p. 215, July 1936.) 

 Type Locality. — Mouth of the Columbia River, Oreg. [ = Cape Disappointment, 

 Pacific County, Wash.; see Cowan, op. cit., pp. 218-219]. Range. — Coast and 

 most of the coastal islands of western North America, from central British 

 Columbia south to central California; eastward roughly to summit of Cascade- 

 Sierra Nevada mountain chain (Cowan, op. cit., p. 216) . 



Odocoileus hemionus calif ornicus (Caton) * 



1876. Cervus macrotis var. californicus Caton, Amer. Nat., vol. 10, p. 464, 

 August 1876. 



1898. Odocoileus hemionus californicus Thompson-Seton, Forest and Stream, 

 vol. 51, No. 15, p. 286, Oct. 8, 1898. 



Type Locality. — Near Gaviota Pass, 40 miles up the coast (west) from Santa 

 Barbara, Santa Barbara County, Calif. Altitude, 1,050 feet. Range. — Chiefly 

 Transition and Upper Sonoran Zones in California from Orange County north 

 on coast to Salmon Creek, Monterey County; through Tehachapi Mountains 

 and northward on western slope of Sierra Nevada to El Dorado County (Cowan, 

 California Fish and Game, vol. 22, No. 3, p. 211, July 1936) . 



Odocoileus hemionus inyoensis Cowan* 



1933. Odocoileus hemionus inyoensis Cowan, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 46, p. 69, Apr. 27, 1933. 



Type Locality. — Kid Mountain, 10 miles west of Big Pine, Inyo County, Calif. 

 Altitude, 11,000 feet. Range. — Eastern slope of southern Sierra Nevada, in 

 Owens Valley district of California (Cowan, California Fish and Game, vol. 

 22, No. 3, p. 228, July 1936) . 



