NOKTU AMEUICAN LAND MAMMALS. 391 



Genus ALCES Jardine. 



1835. Alces Jardine, Nat. Library, vol. 21 (mammalia: doer, 

 antelopes, camels, etc.), p. 125. Type, Alces americanus 

 Jardine. 



1902. Parolees Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. IG, p. 

 160. July 1, 1902. (Substitute for Alces proposed on the 

 assumption that this is a homonym of Alee Blumenbach, 

 1799.) 



*Alces americanus Jardine. 



1822. Cervus americanus Clinton, Letters on Nat. Hist, and 

 Lit. Resources of New York, p. 193. (Not of Erxleben 1777 ) 

 Country north of Whitestown, New York. 



1835. Alces americanus Jardine, Nat. Library, vol. 21 (mam- 

 malia: deer, antelopes, camels, etc.), p. 125. 



1885. Alces macMis True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (1884), 

 p. 592, 1885. 



1891. Alee americanus Merriam, North Amer, Fauna, No. 5, p. 

 79, July 30, 1891. 



Type Locality. — Eastern North America. 



Alces columbae Lydekker. 



1907. Alces columhse Lydekker, The Field, London, vol. 109, 



p. 182. February 2, 1907. 

 Type Locality. — In original description said to be somewhere 

 in British Columbia; in Zool. Record for 1907 (vol. 44, 2\Iamm. 

 p. 69), entered as "Ontario (not British Columbia)." 



t*Alces gigas Miller. 



1899. Alces gigas Miller, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 13, 



p. 57. May 29, 1899. 

 Type Locality. — North side of Tustumena Lake, Kenai 

 Penmsula, Alaska. 



Genus RANGIFER Hamilton Smith. 



1827. Rangifer Hamilton Smith, Griflith's Cuvier, Animal 

 Kingdom, vol. 5, p. 304. Type, Cervus taranxlus Linnji^us. 



1827. Tarandus Billberg, Synopsis Faunae Scandinaviae, p. 

 22. Same type. 



*Rangifer arcticus (Richardson). 



1829. Cervus tarandus var. arctica Richardson, Fauna Boreali- 



Americana, vol. 1, p. 241. 

 1885. Rangifer tarandus and R. tarandus grcenlandicus True, 



Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (1884), p. 592. 1885. 

 1896. Rangifer arcticus Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



vol. 8, p. 234. November 21, 1896. 



