Rangifer arcticus montanus Seton-Thompson
Caribou
Rangifer montanus Seton-Thompson, Ottawa Naturalist, 13:129-30, August, 1899.
Rangifer arcticus montanus Jacobi, Erganzungsband, Zoöl. Anz., 96:92, November, 1931.
Type.—Obtained near Revelstoke, Selkirk Range, British Columbia.
Distribution.—Rare or casual along the Canadian boundary in northeastern Washington.
Remarks.—The caribou is a rather stout-bodied deer with large hoofs, short, rounded muzzle and long, erect, flattened antlers.
Caribou and their relatives, the reindeer, range over Arctic Europe, Asia, Greenland and America. In North America they range from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the northern border of the United States northward into the Arctic. The caribou was, until recent years, a regular winter resident in small numbers in northeastern Washington near the Canadian Boundary. Their wintering grounds in Washington were said to have been destroyed by fire in 1915 and the species has appeared in the state only casually since then. Two were killed in 1940 by hunters who thought they were deer. Caribou are protected by law in Washington.
Bison bison oregonus [Bailey]
Bison
Bison bison bison [Taylor] and [Shaw], Occ. Papers Chas. R. Conner Mus., 2:31, December, 1929.
Bison bison oregonus [Bailey], Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 45:48, April 2, 1932.