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in permitting unreserved use of the collections of recent mammals. 

 Dr. Walter Granger, of the American Museum of Natural History, 

 and Dr. C L. Camp and R. A. wStirton, of the University of California, 

 have aided greatly in loaning type material from their cave collections. 

 The dravvings included with the text were made by Sy(hiey Prentice 

 and Rudolf Weber. 



HISTORY OF INVESTIGATION 



The attention of the United States National Museum w^as directed 

 to the occurrence in 1912 by Raymond Armbruster, of Cumberland, 

 Md., and by George Roeder, of Swetnan, Va. Investigation of the 

 occurrence was undertaken by Dr. J. W. Gidley, and quarrying 

 operations in the cave were conducted by him at intervals during 

 the years 1912 to 1915. For a part of this time he was assisted in 

 the excavation work by Mr. Armbruster. The exploration work 

 carried on at the cave is interestingly described in three popular papers 

 published in "Explorations and Field-Work of the vSmithsonian 

 Institution" for the years 1913, 1914, and 1915. 



Early results of Gidley 's study of the fauna were published in two 

 short papers that appeared in 1913. These included a description 

 of an "eland" (1913a) (see also Gazin, 1933), and new species of wolf 

 and black bear (1913b). In later papers Gidley (1920a, 1920b) gave 

 a general account of the occiuTence and described the peccary remains 

 taken from the cave. Dr. Alexander Wetmore (1927) reported the 

 remains of a ruffed grouse included in the collection. 



Since the death of Dr. Gidley in 1931 it has become the junior 

 author's privilege to continue the investigation of the Cumberland 

 Cave fauna, completing the manuscript and describing those portions 

 of the fauna that had not been studied. In 1933 a revised list of the 

 forms encountered in the investigation was published (Gidley and 

 Gazin, 1933) together watli descriptions of the remaining new forms 

 in the fauna. 



LOCATION OF CUMBERLAND CAVE 



Cumberland Cave is located in Allegany County, western Maryland, 

 about 4 miles northwest of Cumberland (see pi. 1). It is situated in 

 a cut made by the Western Maryland Railroad through the north 

 end of a ridge just south of Corriganville, near where Jennings Run 

 joins Wills Creek. Its location as determined from the topography 

 shown on the Frostburg qujidrangle, U. S. Geological Survej^, is at 

 about latitude 39°4lK' N. and longitude 78°47}^' W. 



Tlie cave is ex]>osed in the cut at the base of an escarpment of 

 Devonian limestone about 75 feet high. Dr. J. B. Reeside, Jr., of 

 the United States Geological Survey, informs the writer that the 



