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gives about the wonderful aninial »Neomylodon listai» in his 

 pamphlet: »Premiere notice sur le Neomylodon Listai im re- 

 presentant vivant des anciens Edentes Gravigrades fossiles 

 de 1' Argentine». l 



No. 1 of the bones, which were collected by Dr. Norden- 

 skjöld in Cneva Eberhardt, was a piece of a human pelvis, 

 consisting of the nearly complete right os ilei with that part 

 of os ischii which enters into the formation of the acetabulum. 

 This pelvic bone seems to have belonged to a large indivi- 

 dual. The breadth of the ala ilei is about 14 cm. although 

 it has been a little broken and worn at the edge. The di- 

 stance between the margin of the acetabulum to the upper 

 outer edge of ala ilei is about 11 cm. It is probable that 

 this fragment of a human pelvis was a part of that human 

 skeleton which was found by the first discoverers and burned 

 by them, although this piece happened to escape the fire. 



No. 2. Another v bone from the same cave is the left 

 scapula, most probably of an Auchenia (huanaco ?). Its lower 

 parts and the sjpina scapulce are complete. The fossa prce- 

 spinata portion is only a little damaged, but the fossa post- 

 spinata region is mostly broken and lost. The development 

 and shape of Spina scapulce and processus coracoideus are, 

 however, so characteristic that I do not hesitate to make this 

 identification. It has belonged to an old and very large in- 

 dividual. It measures 23 cm. in length. This size is re- 

 markable. According to the textbooks the llama is larger 

 than the huanaco, but the scapula of a, as it seems fullgrown, 

 llama measures only 19 cm., but has the same shape as the 

 scapula of an huanaco in the Museum of Upsala. The latter 

 was, however, an animal which had been held in captivity 

 for a long time so that its skeleton was partly deformed. 

 The dimensions of its bones can therefore not very well be 

 used for comparison. 



No. 3. The third piece of bone has probably belonged 

 to the same animal. I think it might be from the anterior 

 half of the upper end of the cannon bone of the right fore- 

 foot. But I admit that it seems rather large and heavy to 

 be of a huanaco as it measures 42 mm. in breadth at the up- 

 per end. It is, however, too flat to have belonged to a re- 

 presentative of Cervidcc an_d far too small to be from a cow. 



1 Translated in »Natural Science» No. 81, p. 324, Nov. 1898. 



