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RECOGNITION OF PLEISTOCENE FAUNAS HAY 



to be noted that several localities are on Wisconsin drift and the 

 remains were found in muck and peat of old marshes. It cannot 

 be doubted that the animal lived in post-Wisconsin times. 



Fig. 4. — Distribution of the Pleistocene giant beaver, Cast oroides. 



Fig. 5. — Distribution of Pleistocene peccaries. 



Figure 3 is intended to represent localities where remains of 

 Elephas columbi have been discovered. It is evident that also this 

 species lived after the last ice-sheet had withdrawn from the coun- 

 try. Inasmuch as this animal extended its habitat to the Gulf of 



