﻿4 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 59 



Under the circumstances, the name requires a definite restriction, 

 and I shall follow Preble in limiting it to the northern timber-wolf. 

 This animal is represented in the U. S. National Museum by skulls 

 from Fort Simpson which show it to be the largest American wolf 

 yet known. 1 



Pambasileus. — Canis pambasileus Elliot, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- 

 ington, Vol. 18, p. 79, February 21, 1905. Type locality, Sushitna 

 River, region of Mt. McKinley, Alaska. So far as can be judged 

 from the description, this is a local form of Canis occidentalis not 

 attaining the extreme size of the Canadian animal. 



Sticte. — (Canis lupus, occidentalis) var. C. Lupis sticte Richardson, 

 Fauna Boreali Americana, Vol. 1, p. 68, 1829. Like ater this name 

 is a synonym of occidentalis. 



Variabilis. — Canis variabilis Wied, Reise in das innere Nord 

 Amerika, Vol. 2, p. 95, 1841. Type locality, Fort Clark, near present 

 town of Stanton, Mercer County, North Dakota. A synonym of 

 nubilus. 



The forms that seem worthy of recognition are, with their syno- 

 nyms, as follows: 



1. CANIS TUNDRARUM Miller (Barren Grounds). 



albus Sabine 1823. 



occidentalis Richardson 1829 (part). 



albus Preble 1908. 



2. CANIS OCCIDENTALIS Richardson (Northern Interior Forests). 



griseus Sabine 1823. 



occidentalis Richardson 1829 (part). 



ater Richardson 1829. 



sticte Richardson 1829. 



occidentalis Preble 1908. 



3. CANIS PAMBASILEUS Elliot (Region of Mt. McKinley). 



4. CANIS GIGAS Townsend (Region of Puget Sound). 



occidentalis Peale 1848 (not of Richardson). 



5. CANIS NUBILUS Say (Interior Plains). 



occidentalis Richardson 1829 (part). 

 occidentalis Townsend 1850. 

 variabilis Wied 1841. 



1 Cranial measurements of adult male, No. 9001: condylobasal length, 266; 

 greatest length, 282.5; zygomatic breadth, 155.5; mandible, 208; maxillary 

 toothrow, exclusive of incisors, 116.5; mandibular toothrow, exclusive of 

 incisors, 134.2; upper carnassial, 30.2 x 16.0; lower carnassial, 33.6x13.0. 



