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bones of Cervus canadensis in the Pleistocene. Logan in his 1863 

 report (Geol. Surv. of Canada, p. 914) mentions the occurrence of the 

 horns of this species near Hamilton, Ontario, associated with the jaw 

 of a beaver, and in the same deposit, but a few feet lower, the remains 

 of a mammoth. Tyrrell in his "Mammalia of Canada,"^ points out 

 that "the name 'Wapiti' was applied to this species by Eichardson, 

 who was apparently under the erroneous impression that the Indians 

 knew it by this name. The Indian name ' ^Yapitil: ' belongs, however, 

 to the Mountain Goat and not to the Waskesewr The former means 

 ' white deer ' (both the mountain sheep and mountain goat being con- 

 sidered as deer) and it would therefore only apply to the white Moun- 

 tain Goaf {Aplocerus montanus). Dr. G. M. Dawson mentions in 

 his Annual Eeport for 1898, the finding of part of the skull of a musk- 

 ox (Ovibos.moschatus) near Edmonton, Alberta, in the "Saskatchewan 

 gravels " from which also a few miles above Edmonton a tooth of 

 Elephas primigenius was obtained. Lydekker, in his Catalogue of the 

 Eossil Mammalia in the British Museum, pt. II, states that a portion 

 of a skull of the musk-ox was discovered in the Pleisftocene of the 

 Upper Porcupine river, Yukon. The remains of Bison crassicornis 

 are recorded by Whiteaves from the Klondyke district, and by Lydek- 

 ker from the Porcupine river. The latter's reference to the species is 

 made under the name Bos honasus (Linn.) var. prisons (Bojanus) a 

 form that in the opinion of some authorities is not distinct from B. 

 crassicornis, Eichardson, The finding of a jaw of Castor canadensis, 

 the American beaver, near Hamilton, Ontario, hag been already referred 

 to. Numerous remains of Phoca grœlandica, the Greenland seal, also 

 known as the Harp and Saddle-backed seal, have been found in the 

 Leda clay at Montreal, Hull and Ottawa. For more detailed informa- 

 tion regarding some of the above species from the Pleistocene the reader 

 is referred to Sir William Dawson's well-known work " The Canadian 

 Ice Age," published in Montreal in 1893. 



In the two following lists the vertebrate species known from Canada 

 are enumerated (1) according to their geological age in ascending 

 order, (2) according to their position in the zoological scale passing 

 from the lowest forms up to the highest. An attempt has been made 

 to make the lists as complete as possible, and dates and localities are 

 added. The dates given in the second list refer to the time of publi- 

 cation of the original descriptions of species based on specimens from 

 Canada or to the identification of Canadian specimens with previously 



^ " The Mammalia of Canada," Proceedings of the Canadian Institute, 

 third series, vol. vi., p. 66, 1889. 



^ Wa-ioas-lca-sioo is the Crée name for Cervus canadensis. 



