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Family CASTOROIDIDAE. 



CASTOROIDES OHIOENSIS Foster. 



Nothing of tliis species has been secured from Afton except a frag- 

 ment of an incisor (Cat. No. 9126). 



Family CANIDAE. 



CANIS NUBILUS (Say). 



In the department of anthropology in the United States National 

 Museum is a skull of a wolf that may be referred to the large species 

 now inhabiting that region. It is white and presents no evidences 

 of great geological age, but no certain conclusions can be drawn as 

 to the length of time it had been buried there. Besides the skull 



Fig. 1.— Floor of Bulveede cave. The squares aee 10 feet on each side. Tue elliptical 

 figure inclosing a represents the bottom of tue shaft. 



there are many teeth and some bones. These wolf remains are in 

 the department of anthropology. 



CANIS LATRANS Say. 



In the collection from Afton there is an axis (Cat. No. 9131) which 

 certainly belonged to this species or to a close relative of it. 



6. COLLECTION MADE IN A CAVE NEAR BULVERDE, BEXAR COUNTY, 



TEXAS. 



Within a few miles of the village of Bulverde, Bexar County, 



Texas, there is a cave which has furnished a considerable number of 



species of fossil vertebrates. In the month of December, 1915, the 



writer employed Mr. D. V. Schucharclt, of San Antonio, then a stu- 



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