DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME FLORIDIAN FOSSIL VERTE¬ 
BRATES, BELONGING MOSTLY TO THE PLEIS¬ 
TOCENE. 
Plates 1-9. 
OLIVER P. HAY. 
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE OF THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASH¬ 
INGTON. 
The greater part of the vertebrate materials described in the 
present paper belongs to the collection of the Florida State Geo^- 
logical Survey and was put into my hands by Dr. E. H. Sellards 
for examination. However, the portion of the upper jaw of Hip- 
parion plicatile was given me, on a visit to Ocala, Florida, by Mr. 
William M. Dale, to be transferred to the U. S. National Museum. 
The interesting little land tortoise herein described is the property 
of Dr. Henry G. Bystra, of Brooksville, Florida. The part of a 
plastron which is referred to Terrapene antipex belongs to Mr. 
Fred R. Allen, of St. Augustine. 
Florida is extremely rich in the bones and teeth of extinct 
vertebrate animals; and the efforts of Dr. E. H. Sellards, the State 
Geologist, to secure and preserve these for science ought to receive 
the encouragement and assistance of all citizens of the State. Find¬ 
ers of fossil teeth and bones ought to send them to the office of the 
State Geologist, at Tallahassee, instead of bestowing them on 
transient visitors who esteem them only as curiosities. 
MAMMALIA. 
FAMILY EQUIDAE. 
HIPPARION PLICATILE LEIDY. 
Plate 2, fig. 8. 
From Mr. William M. Dale, Gainesville, Florida, vice-presi¬ 
dent of the Dunnellon Phosphate Company, the National Museum 
has received a part o-f the palate of this species. It has received 
the number 8265. The specimen was found in a phosphate mine 
at Juliette, about three miles north of Dunnellon, in a bend of the 
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