NORTH AMERICAN RECENT MAMMALS. 491 



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 Penin- 

 sula, Alaska. 



Genus RANGIFER Hamilton Smith. 

 (Reindeer; Caribou.) 



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

 Kingdom, vol. 5, p. 304. Type, Cervus tarandus Linn^us. 



1827. Tarandus Billberg, Synopsis Faunae Scandinavise, p. 

 22. Same type. 



*Rangifer arcticus arcticus (Richardson). (Barren-gromid Caribou.) 

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



Americana, vol. 1, p. 241. 

 1885. Rangifer tarandus and R. tarandus groenlandicus 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. 

 Type Locality. — Fort Enterprise, Mackenzie, Canada. (See 



Allex, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 24, p. 584, September 



11, 190S.) 



*Rangifer arcticus caboti G. M. Allen. 



1914. Rangifer arcticus caboti G. M. Allen, Proc. New England 

 Zool. Club, vol. 4, p. 104. March 24, 1914. 



1915. Tarandus rangifer lahradorensis IVIillais, The Gun at 

 Home and Abroad, vol. 4, p. 259. (" . . . horns brought into 

 Nain, Davis Inlet, and Fort Chimo"). 



Type Locality. — Thirty miles north of Nachvak, eastern Lab- 

 rador, Canada. 



*Rangifer arcticus ogilvyensis (Millais). 



1915. Tarandus rangifer ogilvyensis Mcllais, The Gun at Home 



and Abroad, vol. 4, p. 263. 

 Type Locality. — Ogilvie Mountains, north of Dawson, Yukon, 

 Canada. 



*Rangifer caribou caribou (Gmelin). (Woodland Caribou.) 

 1788. [Cervus tarandus] caribou Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, p. 



177. 

 1854. Rangifer caribou Audubon and Baciiman, Quadr. N. 



Amer., vol. 3, p. 111. 

 1885. Rangifer tarandus caribou True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. 7 (1884), p. 592. 1885. 

 Type Locality. — Eastern Canada. 



