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Range — Lower Sonoran zone of southern California ; 

 most numerous in the San Diegan district, but noted also on 

 the Colorado Desert, in the San Joaquin Valley, and in Kern 

 and Fresno counties (Mus. Vert. Zool. ) ; northernmost 

 station, Fresno. 



Order CARNIVORA 



Family URSIDAE 

 Ursus horribilis californicus Merriam 



California Grizzly 



Original description — {Ursus horribilis] californicus jNIer- 

 riam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 10, April 13, 1896, p. 76, fig. 15. 



Type locality — Monterey, California. 



Synonyms — Ursus horribilis; Ursus horribilis horriacus; 

 Grizzly Bear. 



Range- — Formerly almost throughout the state, except the 

 southeastern deserts and the e.xtreme northwestern humid 

 coast belt. Zone, mostly Upper Sonoran and lower Transition. 

 Now probably extinct. 



Ursus americanus altifrontalis Elliot 

 Northwestern Black Bear 



Original description — Ursus altifrontalis Elliot, Field Col. 

 Mus., zool. sen, 3, June, 1903, pp. 234, 235. 



Type locality — Shore of Lake Crescent, Clallam County, 

 Washington. 



Syno>iy)ns — Ursus americanus; Ursus ci)inamoneus; Cinna- 

 mon Bear; Brown Bear; Black Bear. 



Range — Chiefly Transition and Boreal zones of northwest- 

 ern California north of San Francisco Bay, and south along 

 the Sierra Nevada at least as far as the Tehachapi Mountains, 

 in Kern County. It is possible that the black bears of the 

 Sierra Nevada belong to a separate and unnamed subspecies. 



Family CANIDAE 



Canis gigas (Townsend) 



Northwestern Timber Wolf 



Original description — Lupus gigas Townsend, Jnurn. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., n. s., 2, November, 1850, pp. 75, 76. 



