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plainly marked sutures, the skull of a child. The base of the skull 

 has been roughly cut away and scraped smooth, leaving an irregular 

 margin or rim to the vessel. Both the inner and outer surface has been 

 scraped with some rough-edged tool, leaving numerous scratches. Two 

 holes were drilled through the side, near the upper part of the cup, for 

 the purpose of mending a crack by t^dng the fractured parts together. 

 A portion of the frontal bone was accidentally broken away b}^ a stroke 

 of the spade. This curious relic of barbarism is now in the collection 

 of the writer, as is also the well-preserved skull with which it was 

 found. Along the gully before mentioned, and within a few feet of 

 these remains, were found parts of three other skeletons. 



It may be added that the place where they were found, has for many 

 years been known to be an aboriginal cemetery. 



The situation is on the highest terrace formation, about one hundred 

 feet above and immediately overlooking the Whitewater. The soil is 

 compact clay, about two feet thick, overlying clean, w^hite sand, in which 

 the bones were found. 



THE MAMMALIA OF THE VICINITY OF CINCINNATI, 

 —A LIST OF SPECIES WITH NOTES. 



By Frank W. Langdon. 



So far as the writer has been able to ascertain, no distinctively local 

 list of " Ohio" Mammals has ever appeared, while in the forty-two 

 years that have elapsed since the publication of the only general list 

 extant,* numerous noteworthy changes in our Ohio mammalian fauna 

 have undoubtedl}^ occurred. The following list is offered, therefore, as 

 a contribution to the natural history of this vicinity, with the hope that 

 it may be a step toward the attainment of a more definite knowledge 

 of the distribution of that important class of animals within this and 

 neighboring States. 



The limits herein assigned to the " Vicinity of Cincinnati," corre- 

 spond with those recognized hy the writer in his " Revised List of 

 Cincinnati Birds," f namely, the valleys of the two Miamis and the 

 Whitewater within ten miles of the Ohio river: in the few cases where 



* See " Report on the Zoology of Ohio," by Prof. J, P. Kirtland, M.D., in Second Annual 

 Report on the Geological Survey of Ohio, Columbus, 1838, pp. 157-200. The list of mammals 

 is a nominal one of fifty species, three of which are synonyms, and a fourth, the European 

 Arvioola anipMbus is included either through misinformation or error in identification, 

 Short notes on thirty-three species are given in an appendix eatitled " Notes and Observa- 

 tions." 



t This Journal, Volume i,, No. 4, January 1879, pp. 167-193. 



