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-Type locality. — Headwaters of the Stikeen River, British 
Columbia, Canada, near Alaskan boundary. Altitude, about 
6500 feet. 
Ovis nelsoni Merriam. 
1897. Oots nelsoni Merriam, Proc. biol. soc. Washington, 
XI, p. 218. July 15, 1897. 
Type locality.— Grapevine Mountains, on boundary between 
California and Nevada, just south of lat. 37°. 
Genus OREAMNOS Rafinesque. 
1817. Oreamnos Rafinesque, Amer. monthly magazine, ii, p. 
44. November, 1817. Based on Mazama dorsata Rafinesque 
(=:Ovis montana Ord), 31. sericea Rafinesque {=Ovis montana 
Ord), and 31. puda Rafinesque (a South American deer). 
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Oreamnos kennedyi Elliot. 
1900. Oream.nos Elliot, Field Columb. mus., pub¬ 
lication 46, zool. ser., iii, p. 3. June, 1900. 
Type locality.— Mountains at mouth of Copper River, oppo¬ 
site Kyak Island, Alaska. 
* Oreamnos montanus (Ord). 
1815. 0ms montmins Ord, Guthrie’s geography, 2d Amer. 
ed., p. 292 (described on pp. 309-310). 
1885. 3Iazama montana True, Proc. U. S. nat. mus., vii 
(1884), p. 592. 1885. 
1895. Oreamnos montanus Merriam, Science, n. s., i, p. 19. 
January 4, 1895. 
Type localita^.— Cascade Range, near the Columbia River, in 
Oregon or Washington. 
