Ursus americanus altifrontalis [Elliot]
Ursus altifrontalis [Elliot], Field Columb. Mus. Publ. 80, zoöl. ser. 3:234, June, 1903.
Euarctos altifrontalis [Miller], U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull., 128:90, April 29, 1924.
Ursus americanus americanus [Taylor] and [Shaw], Mammals and Birds of Mount Rainier National Park, U. S. Nat. Park Service, Washington, p. 37, 1927.
Euarctos americanus altifrontalis [Bailey], N. Amer. Fauna, 55:321, August 29, 1936.
Ursus americanus altifrontalis [Hall], Univ. California Publ. Zoöl., 30:232, March 2, 1928.
Type.—Obtained at Lake Crescent, Olympic Peninsula, Clallam County, Washington, by D. G. [Elliot] in 1898; type in Field Museum of Natural History.
Racial characters.—Color dark, almost always black instead of brown; skull wide, high and heavy; molar teeth wide and heavy.
Distribution.—From the eastern base of the Cascade Mountains westward to the Pacific. Marginal occurrences are Chelan (W.W.D.) and Signal Peak ([Taylor] and [Shaw], 1929: 10).