312 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



Family OviD^: Sheep. 



2. Ovis MAMMiLARis, Kii'tlaiid (?). — This name has been proposed 

 for an extinct sheep, found in excavating for the canal near Nash 

 port, Ohio, in 1838. Its remains, consisting of three crania found 

 at a depth of eight feet in a peat bog, are now in the cabinet of the 

 Athenaeum, at Zanesville; I am indebted to Dr. J. M. Wheaton for a 

 skcteh and account of it in MS. It is first mentioned. Dr. Wheaton 

 informs me, in Am. Jour. Sci. & Arts, xxxi., 1837, 79-83; the article is 

 anonymous, but is supposed to be from the pen of Dr. Kirtland. 



Family Suid.e: The Swine. 



3. DicoTYLES (Platygonds) compressus, LeConte. — A species of 

 Peccar3^ about twice as large as the existing Mexican species, and a 

 little larger than the South American. This animal was discovered in 

 Ohio by the late Prof John H. Klippart, who obtained twelve nearly 

 entire skeletons within the corporate limits of Columbus, Ohio, in 

 April, 1873. The original account of its discovery read before the 

 American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Hartford, in 

 1874, was re-published in the Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science, 

 vol. ii., No. 1, January, 1875. 



Order Proboscid^: Proboscidians. 

 Family Elephantid^ : Elephants. 



4. Elephas americanus, Leidy. — American Elephant; Mammoth. — 

 The remains of this species are ot rather frequent occurrence in the 

 drift gravel of this region, and it is represented in the Society's mu- 

 seum by numerous specimens. Among these may be mentioned the fol- 

 lowing: a lower jaw, with a tooth in place, found in digging a sewer at 

 the corner of Fourth street and Central Avenue;* depth ten feet; pre- 

 sented by Dr. O. D. Norton. A tooth, found in excavating tor the new 

 Custom House building, in 1875, presented by Dr. H. H. Hill. 



5. Mastodon giganteus, Cuvier. — 3fastodon.—ThQ remains of the 

 Mastodon, like those of the Mammoth, occur in this immediate 

 vicinity, chiefly in the drift gravel; at other points, however, as at Big- 

 bone Lick, Kentuckj^t they are found in place, in such numbers as 

 to have given the locality its name, and many fine specimens now 

 in various museums have been procured there. The bones of the 



* Vide MiUer, iu Ciaciiinati Quarterly Journal of Science, 1875, p. 266. 

 t About twenty-five miles S. W. of Cincinnati, or four miles south of the mouth of the 

 Big Miami. 



