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THE AMEEICAN BISOI^S. 



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THE EeMAIKS of THE EXTINCT BlSOlN^S OF NOETH AmEEIOA. 



A. Bison latifrons 



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1. Peak's Specimen, — As -pYeYmnBly 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. 



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2. Adams Count//, Ohio, — Tw^o 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 

 of a 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 w^orld, by Dr. 0. D. Norton, 

 throuo-h 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 haA^e been found near San Felipe. 

 They appear to have been associated with the remains of an extinct species 



f tapir, in a formation of "mixed clay, sand and gravel, with much iron." 



Five molar teeth from the vicinity of Natchez, 

 Mississippi, were found, according to Dr. Leidy, in association with the re- 



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Mastodon, Eqtms, Ursiis, Cerviis, Mkjahmjx, Mylodon, and Felis atrox. 

 Darien, Georgia, — Remains belonging either to the female of Bison 



latifrons or the male of Bison anticfius wer« 

 Geor(>;ia, in excavating the Brunswick 



Canal. These, according to Mr. 



J. H. Couper, " w^ere found at the bottom of the alluvial deposit, imbedded 

 in it, and lying on the stratum of sand." They were associated with the 



Mastodon 



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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 



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