NUMDiCJi 13. XOVEMUKR 12, I915. 



OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE MUSEUM OF 

 ZOOLOGY 



UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 



Ann Arbor, Michigan. Published by the University. 



ON A NEARLY COMPLETE SKULL OF SVMB'OS 

 CAVIFRONS LEIDY FROM MICHIGAN 



Bv E. C. Case. 



About the first of August of this year an account of the 

 discovery of a fossil skull appeared in the Manchester (Mich- 

 igan) Enterprise. This upon examination turned out to be a 

 nearly complete skull of the extinct musk ox Syinbos caz'ifro)is. 



The skull was found on the farm of Wm. J. Schlicht, about 

 three miles northeast of ]*ilanchester, ?\lichigan, in the excava- 

 tion of a drain. It lay on a bed of clay four feet below the 

 level of the rather swamp}' surface and was covered by a black 

 muck filled with plant remains and interrupted by a few thin 

 layers of fine gravel. Unfortunately one of the workman 

 struck tlie end of the nose with his spade and in the subsecptent 

 handling of the specimen the pieces were lost: a few of these 

 were recovered in the examination of the locality and the 



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