106 BULLETIN 128, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



t*Ursus gyas — Continued. 



1902. Ursus merriami Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 



16, p. 141. April 12, 1902. (Portage Bay, opposite Port 



Muller, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska.) 

 1918. Ursus gyas Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, No. 41, p. 124. 



February 9, 1918. 

 Type Locality. — Pavlof Bay, Alaska Peninsula, Alaska. 

 Range. — Entire length of Alaska Peninsula from Cook Inlet to 



Isanotski Strait and adjacent Unimak Island. 



t*Ursus middendorffi Merriam. 



1896. Ursus middendorffi Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



vol. 10, p. 69. April 13, 1896. 

 1911. Ursus Icadiaki Kleinschmidt, Outdoor Life, vol. 27, p. 3, 



January, 1911. 

 Type Locality. — Kodiak Island, Alaska. 

 Range. — Kodiak and adjacent islands, Afognak and Shuyak; 



not known from mainland. 



fena i^nsis-group . 



t*Ursus kenaiensis Merriam. 



1904. Ursus Jcenaiensis Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



vol. 17, p. 154. October 6, 1904. 

 Type Locality. — Cape Elizabeth, extreme west end of Kenai 



Peninsula, Alaska. 

 Range. — Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. 



t*Ursus sheldoni Merriam. 



1910. Ursus sheldoni Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 



vol. 23, p. 127. September 2, 1910. 

 Type Locality.— Montague Island, Prince William Sound, 

 Alaska. 



inopinatus-gToup. 



t*Ursus inopinatus (Merriam). 



1918. Vetularctos inopinatus Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, 



No. 41, p. 132. February 9, 1918. 

 Type Locality. — Rendezvous Lake, northeast of Fort Anderson, 



Mackenzie, Canada. 



Genus THALARCTOS Gray.^« (Polar Bears.) 



1825. Thalarctos Gray, Ann. of Philos., n. s., vol. 10, p. 62. 

 Type, Thalarctos polaris Gray = Ursus maritimus Phipps. 



'9 Revised by Knottnerus-Meyer, Sitzungsber. Qesellsch. naturf. Fretmde, Berlin , 1908, pp. 170-187, 

 July, 1908. 



