39 THE AMERICAN BISONS. 
4, — GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION AND GEOLOGICAL POSITION OF | 
THE REMAINS OF THE Extinct Bisons or NoRTH AMERICA. 
A. Bison latifrons. 
1. Peale’s Specimen. — As previously stated, the original specimen, first 
made known by Peale, was discovered in the bed of a small creek, about a 
dozen miles north of Big-bone Lick, Kentucky, but whether in association 
with other fossils has not been recorded. 
2. Adams County, Ohio. — Two entire horn-cores were found a few years 
since by some workmen on Brush Creek, in Adams County, Ohio, while en- 
gaged in digging, preparatory to laying the foundations of the abutments 
ofa bridge. They are said to have been found in gravel eighteen feet below 
the surface, whether associated or not with other fossil remains I have 
been unable to learn. Although found several years since, they were but 
recently brought to the notice of the scientific world, by Dr. O. D. Norton, 
through whose efforts they have fortunately been secured for the Natural 
History Society of Cincinnati. 
3. San Felipe, Texas. — The greater portion of a skull and a molar tooth, 
described by Dr. W. M. Carpenter in 1846, were from the banks of the 
Brazos River, Texas, and were supposed to have been found near San Felipe. 
They appear to have been associated with the remains of an extinct species 
of tapir, in a formation of “mixed clay, sand and gravel, with much iron.” 
4. Natchez, Mississippi. Five molar teeth from the vicinity of Natchez, 
Mississippi, were found, according to Dr. Leidy, in association with the re- 
mains of Mastodon, Equus, Ursus, Cervus, Megalonyz, Mylodon, and Fels atrox. 
?5.— Darien, Georgia. — Remains belonging either to the female of Bison 
latifrons or the male of Bison antiquus were found some years since, at Darien, 
Georgia, in excavating the Brunswick Canal. These, according to Mr. 
J. H. Couper, “were found at the bottom of the alluvial deposit, imbedded 
in it, and lying on the stratum of sand.” They were associated with the 
remains of “the megatherium, the Mastodon gigantewm, Elephas primogenus, 
hippopotamus [== Mastodon americanus Leidy], horse, and the Sus americana 
[== bao) . — = 
It thus appears that the remains of the larger Extinct American Bison as 
yet known are not only few in number, but come from not very widely 
