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*Bison, sp. *Equus occidentalis Leidy. 
*Camelid. *Equus pacifieus Leidy. 
*Megalonyx wheatleyi (?) Cope. Crotalus, sp. 
*Megalonyx jeffersonii (?) Har- Mylopharadon conocephalus Baird 
lan, and Gerard. 
*Megalonyx, n. sp. Ptychocheilus (?) grandis (?) 
*Megalonyx, sp. (Ayres). 
*Mastodon americanus Kerr. Acipenser medirostris (?) Ayres. 
*“Elephas primigenius Blumb. 
To this list of species published by Sinclair, the studies of the 
present author® would add the following birds: 
SPECIES OF BirpDS FROM PoTTER CREEK CAVE 
Branta canadensis (Linnaeus). *Catharista shastensis Miller. 
Oreortyx picta (Douglas). Buteo borealis (Gmelin). 
Dendragapus obscurus (Say). Faleo peregrinus Tunstall. 
*Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus). Faleo sparverius Linnaeus 
Indeterminate odontophorid. Otus asio (Linnaeus). 
*Meleagris, sp. *Bubo sinclairi Miller. 
*“Gymnogyps amplus Miller, Colaptes cafer (Gmelin). 
Cathartes aura (Linnaeus). Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm. 
*Species marked with the asterisk (*) are either extinct or are no 
longer represented in the region. 
Samwel Cave——Samwel Cave was explored by E. L. Fur- 
long, then of the University of California, who published an 
account of his work two vears after the appearance of Sinclair’s 
paper on the Potter Creek Cave. Furlong’s account?!’ pictures 
a cavern not essentially different from that described by Sin- 
clair. The conditions of interment seem to have been somewhat 
different, however, since there occurred a number of entire skele- 
tons of large and small carnivores and one forni of ungulate, 
Preptoceras, which were preserved without fracture of the bones 
and in the proper anatomical relation. Furlong reaches the 
conclusion that the cavern was used as a lair by such forms as 
the bear and the cougar. To this lair the bodies of larger 
ungulates hike Buceratherium and Preptoceras were dragged as 
prey. Some of the carcasses were left almost entire while others 
were torn to pieces and the bones more or less broken by the 
® Miller, L. H., Univ. Calif. Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., vol. 6, p. 385, 1911. 
10 Furlong, E. L., Am. Journ. Sei., vol. 22, pp. 235-247, Sept., 1906. 
