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Range — Lower Sonoran zone on the Colorado Desert : Im- 

 perial Valley and north along the Colorado River at least to 

 vicinity of Picacho (Mus. Vert. Zool.). 



Lutra canadensis pacifica Rhoads 



Pacific River Otter 



Original description — Lutra hudsonica pacifica Rhoads, 

 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, n. s., 19, September, 1898, pp. 

 429-431. 



Type locality — Lake Kichelos (=Keechelus), Kittitas 

 County, Washington. 



- Synonyms — Lutra californica; Lutra canadensis; California 

 Otter. 



Range — Streams of northern California, south at least to 

 Mendocino County, and through the Sacramento and San 

 Joaquin valleys to the San Joaquin River, Fresno County. 



Latax lutris nereis Merriam 

 Southern Sea Otter 



Original description — Latax lutris nereis Merriam, Proc. 

 Biol. Soc. Wash., 17, October 6, 1904, p. 159. 



Type locality — San Miguel Island, Santa Barbara Islands, 

 California. 



Synonyms — Latax lutris; Enhydra lutris; Enhydra marina; 

 San Miguel Island Sea Otter. 



Range — In the ocean along the exposed seashore and neigh- 

 boring islands the whole length of the state, especially about 

 the Santa Barbara and Farallon islands (see Scammon, Marine 

 Mammals, 1874, pp. 168-174). Formerly abundant, now 

 rare. It is possible that the animals which occurred off the 

 northern California coast belonged to the northern sub- 

 species. 



Family FELIDAE 

 Felis oregonensis oregonensis Rafinesque 



Northwestern Cougar 



Original description — "Felix [=Felis] oregonensis Ra- 

 finesque, Atlantic Journal, 1, 1832, p. 62." 



August 26, 1913. 



