GRAY WOLF, Canis lupus 



(Amauk, Kigilunuk) 



Range. — Northern North America, now princi- 

 pally in Canada and Alaska. - . 



Habitat.— Wild areas remote from human hab- 

 itation, both forests and open areas at all eleva- 

 tions. 



Race in Alaska. — The race alces (type locality: 

 Kachemak Bay), now extinct, occurred only near 

 the southern end of the Kenai Peninsula; ligoni 

 (type locality: head of Duncan Canal, Kupreanof 

 Islands) occupies the Alexander Archipelago 

 (except for Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof 

 Islands) and adjacent mainland of southeastern 

 Alaska, north to Yakutat Bay; tundramm (type 

 locality: Point Barrow) occurs in the tundra 

 region along the Arctic Ocean and Chukchi Sea 

 coasts south to the Noatak River; pambusileus 

 (type locality: Susitna River, Mount McKinley 

 region) occupies most of interior Alaska, from the 

 Seward Peninsula and Kuskokwim River valley 

 east to central Yukon. 



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