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These species are all new and, with the exception of the American 
eland, the dog, and one of the bears, which Mr. Gidley has already 
described, have not yet been named. 
Other species represented by more fragmentary material include 
the mastodon, tapir, horse, and beaver, besides several species of the 
smaller rodents, shrews, bats, and others. 
This strange assemblage of fossil remains occurs hopelessly inter- 
mingled and comparatively thickly scattered through a more or less 
unevenly hardened mass of cave clays and breccias, which com- 
pletely filled one or more small chambers of a limestone cave, the 
material together with the bones evidently having come to their final 
resting place through an ancient opening at the surface a hundred 
feet or more above their present location. The deposit is at present 
exposed at the bottom of a deep cut through which the Westera 
Maryland Railroad has built its tracks. The railroad excavation first 
brought to light the ancient bone deposit and incidentally made access 
to the fossils comparatively easy. It 1s proposed to continue work 
on this important deposit during the next season. 
A FOSSIL HUNTING EXPEDITION IN MONTANA 
While engaged in Geological Survey work in northwestern \on- 
tana in 1912, Mr. Eugene Stebinger discovered a promising locality 
of vertebrate fossil remains. The following summer (1913), under 
the auspices of the U.S. Geological Survey, Mr. Charles W. Gilmore, 
assistant curator of fossil reptiles in the National Museum, headed 
an expedition for the purpose of obtaining, if possible, a representa- 
tive collection from this area. 
In July a camp was established on Milk River, some thirty-five 
miles north and west of Cut Bank, Montana, on the Blackfeet Indian 
Reservation. Four weeks were spent here in collecting, the work 
being confined entirely to the Upper Cretaceous (Belly River beds) 
as exposed in the bad-lands for ten miles along this stream. Later, 
in August, camp was moved some fifty miles south on the Two \edi- 
cine River, and two weeks were spent working in the same geological 
formation. 
Taking into consideration the short time at the disposal of the 
party, the results of the expedition were most gratifying. Between 
* Smithsonian Mise. Coll., Vol. 60, No. 27, 1913. 
Proceedings U. S. National Museum, Vol. 49, No. 2014, 1913. 
