X. REPORT UPON THE FOSSIL MATERIAL COLLECTED 



IN 1913 BY THE MESSRS. LINK IN A CAVE IN 



THE ISLE OF PINES. 



By O. A. Peterson. 

 (Plate XXXVI.) 



The cave visited by Mr. G. A. Link, Sr., and his son, Mr. John Link, 

 is in a small limestone hill some fifteen or twenty feet above its base 

 (see white cross in cut on Plate XXXVI). Its existence is not generally 

 known, even to the natives of the island. The material has recently 

 been freed from its incrustation of lime. It is in a semi-petrified 

 condition, and some of it may well belong to the late Pleistocene. 



Two or three fresh-water snails, too poorly preserved to be identi- 

 fied, and a few limb-bones of snipes and small herons are represented 

 in the collection. Crania and lower jaws of rodents and bats are more 

 numerous and are more easily identified. On the occasion of a recent 

 visit to the American Museum of Natural History I submitted this 

 material to the inspection of Dr. J. A. Allen and Mr. E. H. Anthony, 

 who gave me every facility to compare the specimens with the large 

 material which they have succeeded in accumulating. For their 

 great kindness in lending me their assistance I wish to express my 

 hearty thanks. 



1 Order GLIRES (Rodents). 



Family OCTODONTID.^ Waterhouse. 



Genus Capromys Desmarest. 



I. Capromys sp. (? nana Allen.) 



A maxillary preserving the cheek-dentition, and representing a 

 young individual (No. 3937) is all the material referable to this genus 

 found in the cave. From the slightly worn teeth and the absence of 

 the last molar I judge that this fragment may represent an immature 

 specimen of C. nana described by G. W. Allen in the Proceedings of 

 the New England Zoological Club, Vol. VI, 1917, p. 54. The last 

 molar, however, was probably smaller and the whole dentition is more 

 tilted backward than in the species recently described by Mr. Allen. 



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