[lambe] progress of VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY 39 



TERTIARY (? Oligocène). 



Class FiscES 



Amyzon hrevipinne, Cope. North foi'k of Similkimeen river, British 



Columbia. 

 Amyzon sp. Horse Fly river, British Columbia. 



PLEISTOCENE. 



Class Pisces 



Salmo salar ? Linn. Common Atlantic salmon. Goose river, north 



shore of St. Lawrence river, Quebec. 

 Mallotus villosiis (Muller). Capelin. Green's creek (Leda clay). 



near Ottawa, Ontario. 

 Osmerus mordax (^uitchill). American .smelt. Green's creek (Leda 



clay), near Ottawa, Ontario. 

 Artediellus uncinatus (Reinhardt). Sculpin. Near Green's creek 



(Leda clay), near Ottawa, Ontario. 

 Cyclopierus lumpus, Linn. Lumpfish ; Lump Sucker. Green's creek 



(Leda clay), near Ottawa. Ontario. 

 Gasterostetis hispinosns, Walbaum. Common eastern stickleback. 



Green's creek (Leda clay), near Ottawa, Ontario. 



Class Ayes. 



Feathers. Green's creek (Leda clay), near Ottawa, Ontario. 

 Bones: not determined. Leda clay, ^lontreal. Quebec. 



Class Mammalia. 



Delphinapterus leucas, Pallas. White whale. Jacquet river. New 

 Brunswick ; and St. Lawrence valley. 



Megaptera hoops (Linn.). Humpback whale. Smith falls, Ontario. 



Mastodon americanus (Cuvier). Cape Breton island; region south 

 of James bay ; southern Ontario ; and Manitoba. 



Elephas primigenius, Blumenback. Region round Hudson bay ; south- 

 ern Ontario ; Alberta ; British Columbia ; and Yukon. A tooth 

 from near Edmonton, Alberta, has been referred to E. coluniM,^ 

 Falconer, as well as to E. primigenius, the former species being 

 considered by some authorities as a variety of the latter rather 

 than as a distinct species. 



Cervus canadensis, Erxleben. Near Hamilton, Ontario. 



Oviios moschatus (Zimmermann). Musk-ox. Alberta; and Yukon 

 (Upper Porcupine river). 



Bison crassicornis, Richardson. Klondyke, and Upper Porcupine river. 

 Yukon. 



Castor canadensis, Kuhl. American beaver. Near Hamilton, Ontario. 



Phoca grœnlandica (Millier). Greenland seal; Harp seal. Leda clay, 

 Montreal, Hull, and Ottawa. 



^ Dr. Robert Bell, in his admirable paper " On the occurrence of Mammoth and 

 Mastodon remains around Hudson Bay," (Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., vol. 9. p. ?.<)!>. 

 1S98), mentions this tootTi as apparently belonging to E. columbi. 



