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Genus ALCES Jardine. 



1835. Alces Jardine, Nat. Library, vol. 21 (mammalia: deer, 

 antelopes, camels, etc.), p. 125. Type, Alces americanus 

 Jardine. 



1902. Paralces Allen, Bull. Amer. Mns. Nat. Hist., vol. 16, p. 

 160. July 1, 1902. (Substitute for Alces proposed on the 

 assumption that this is a homonym of Alee Blumenbach, 

 1799.) 



*Alces americanus Jardine. 



1822. Cervus americanus Clinton, Letters on Nat. Hist, and 

 Int. Resources of New York, p. 193. (Not of Erxleben 1777.) 

 Country north of Whitestown, New York. 



1835. Alces americanus Jardine, Nat. Library, vol. 21 (mam- 

 malia: deer, antelopes, camels, etc.), p. 125. 



1885. Alces maclilis True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 7 (1884), 

 p. 592, 1885. 



1891. Alee americanus Merriam, North Amer. Fauna, No. 5, p. 

 79, July 30, 1891. 



Type Locality. — Eastern North America. 



Alces columbae Lydekker. 



1907. Alces columbx Lydekker, The Field, London, vol. 109, 



p. 182. February 2, 1907. 

 Type Locality. — In original description said to be somewhere 



in British Columbia; in Zool. Record for 1907 (vol. 44, Mamm. 



p. 69), entered as "Ontario (not British Columbia)." 



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 



Peninsula, Alaska. 



Genus RANGIFER Hamilton Smith. 



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

 Kingdom, vol. 5, p. 304. Type, Cervus tarandus Linnaeus. 



1827. Tarandus Billberg, Synopsis Faunae Scandinavia^, p. 

 22. Same type. 



*Rangifer arcticus (Richardson). 



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



Americana, vol. 1, p. 241. 

 1885. Rangifer tarandus and R. tarandus grcenlandicus 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. 



