DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME PLEISTOCENE VERTEBEATES 

 FOUND IN THE UNITED STATES. 



By Olb^r p. Hay. 



Associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



In the following paper the writer describes the materials found in 

 six collections of fossil vertebrates. Most of these collections were 

 made many years ago and have lain in various museums unstudied. 

 Two collections came from eastern Tennessee, one of them from 

 Rogersville, Hawkins County, the other from Whitesburg, Hamblen 

 County. A third collection was made at Cavetown, Washington 

 County, Maryland, by Dr. Charles Peabody and Mr. Warren K. 

 Moorehead, of the department of archaeology in Phillips Academy, 

 Andover, Massachusetts. The fourth collection is one that was 

 gathered from the loess at Alton, Illinois, some time before 1883, 

 by Hon. William McAdams, of the city named. The fifth collection 

 is that obtained in a sulphur spring near Afton, Oklahoma, by Prof. 

 W. H. Holmes, head curator of anthropology in the United States 

 National Museum. A few of the larger species of this collection 

 have been described by Dr. F. A. Lucas, in papers of several years 

 ago. The sixth collection was made in 1915 for the writer, from a 

 cave situated near the village of Bulverde, Bexar County, Texas, 

 and is now the property of the United States National Museum. It 

 will be seen that the localities are scattered over a wide range of 

 country, and, as a consequence, the collections furnish a considerable 

 variety of species. So far as the writer can determine they consist 

 mostly of animals that lived at about the middle of the Pleistocene 

 period. Most of the remains found in the spring at Afton, Okla- 

 homa, are regarded as belonging to animals that lived during the 

 Aftonian interglacial stage, but it is not unlikely that others got 

 buried there at later times, some possibly near or in the Recent. 



1. COLLECTION FROM NEAR ROGERSVILLE, HAWKINS COUNTY, 

 TENNESSEE. 



This collection consists of a few bones and teeth which were sent 

 to the Smithsonian Institution in 1887, by Mr. James W. Rogan, of 

 Rogersville. They were reported as having been found in the marble 



Proceedings U. S. National Museum. Vol. 58-No. 2328. 



