No. 2328. PLEISTOCENE VERTEBRATES IN UNITED STATES— HAY. 86 



described a ciown of a lower cani}ie of a large peccary ^ as Mylo- 

 hyus? temerarius. This crown, however, was broadly rounded in 

 front, and therefore quite different from the tooth from Kogersville. 



The limb bones of a peccary from Eogersville are referred pro- 

 visionally to this species. They consist of a left humerus, lacking 

 the upper end ; a shaft of a right humerus ; a left radius, lacking the 

 distal end; a right astragalus; and tlie distal end of a metapodial, 

 lacking the epiphysis. These have the catalogue number 518. The 

 humerus lacks the upper end down to where the ridge ascending to 

 the ulnar tuberosity leaves the deltoid ridge. The distance from the 

 extreme end of the inner condyle to the surface of the head must 

 have been not far from 190 mm. The deltoid ridge is sharp. The 

 humerus, at its upper end, as preserved, has an antero-posterior 

 diameter of 42 mm.; the shorter 20 mm. At the middle of the 

 presimied original length the longer diameter is 28 mm. ; the shorter 

 22 mm. The width of the articular surface for the forearm is 37 

 nmi. ; the fore-and-aft width of the inner condyle, 48 mm. These 

 dimensions are not greatly different from those obtained from hu- 

 meri of skeletons of Platygonus comp7'essus found at Columbus, Ohio, 

 jind now in Yale University. 



The radius fits accurately to the humerus just described. The 

 length down to the epiphysial surface is 134 mm. The original 

 length must have been close to 148 mm. The width at the upper 

 articulation is 31 mm. ; the greatest diameter at the middle of the 

 length, 19 nun. The bone is nearly straight, not bent as in the exist- 

 ing peccary. 



2. COLLECTION MADE NEAR WHITESBURG, TENN. 



The collection below described appears, from correspondence in 

 the office of correspondence and documents in the United States 

 National Museum, to have been made in 1885 by Ira Sayles, who was 

 then a collector for the United States Geological Survey. The only 

 record regarding the locality is found written in pencil on the bottom 

 of a paper tray which was with the collection. It runs thus : " One 

 mile north of Wliitesburg, Hamblen Co., Tenn., in a kind of koechen- 

 middens. Probably an old fortification. Sayles." From the corre- 

 spondence referred to above it is shown that in 1885 Sayles sent a 

 collection of shells from Strawberry Plains, in the next county west 

 of Hamblen. 



With the collection are some chunks of the matrix which contained 

 the fossils. This proves to be the red earth which forms in the 

 bottom of caves. These pieces of matrix are crowded with frag- 

 ments of bones. The earthy material is reddish brown in color. 



1 Iowa Geol. Surv., vol. 23, p. 227, pi. 21, flgs. 1, 2. 



