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into the afternoon, the small prospecting pick used had been worn to a 

 blunt point, and the stomach of the writer began to hint at the fact 

 that lunch time had long passed. I decided therefore to return to 

 camp in order to make arrangements for the following day. Early 

 the next morning we were on the way back to the specimen with team, 

 wagon, lumber, and all the necessary paraphernalia including feed 

 for the horses, and a lunch for ourselves. We were determined to 

 promptly finish digging out and packing the specimen that day. In 

 spite of this purpose we were agreeably disappointed and surprised 

 at bringing into view the skull and other parts of a third skeleton in 

 the group (see PI. XXXIII, No. 1080). The cut in the sandstone 

 cliff was by this time of some size, and an additional cut in order to 

 surround the third skeleton and take out the entire group in good 

 order would occupy no less than three weeks. Accordingly we 

 abandoned the work for the day, went back, and made arrangements 

 to move our camp nearer to the work. After the new camp had been 

 properly established, we systematically approached our task, and in 

 due time the entire group was taken out in numbered sections and 

 properly packed in boxes for shipment to the Museum. 



In the winter of 1903-1904, while preparing this beautifully pre- 

 served and most important group for study and exhibition, the writer 

 discovered that in the fragments picked up iri the talus there was evi-' 

 dence of the existence of a fourth individual. As only fragments of the 

 head and anterior portion of the skeleton were represented, the surmise 

 was natural that either the posterior portion of the skeleton was 

 possibly to be found somewhere in the cliff in close proximity to the 

 spot where the group had been found, or, that the greater portion of 

 the skeleton had already been entirely disintegrated. 



On the first opportunity which presented itself while in the field 

 during the season of 1904, I determined to endeavor to secure the 

 fourth individual, and accordingly on May 30 (Decoration Day), I 

 again visited the grave which had been robbed of its prehistoric 

 remains. I again went down the canyon in search of more fragments, 

 but finding nothing of any importance, resolved to search the upper 

 portion of the cliff. Finding no fragments at the top, I seated myself, 

 looking down on the excavation from which the three skeletons had 

 been taken two years previously. The side of the cliff, though quite 

 steep, is in places not too steep for the lodgment of talus, and in 

 bracing myself to obtain a more secure position, I discovered that I had 



