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I secured also in these beds the skull of a peccary 

 and an oreodont, both new, and used as the types of 

 Cope's description, and a couple of carnivores; one, 

 called by Cope Archcelurus debilis, about the size of 

 the American panther, the other a dog about the size 

 of a coyote. Cope gave the name Enhydrocyon 

 stenocephalus to this genus and species. A splendid 

 skull of the rhinoceros Diceratheriwn nanum Marsh, 

 was another of my discoveries here. All the 

 specimens, with the skull of a rodent from the 

 same beds, are now on exhibition in the American 

 Museum. 



Of course these are but a few of the many speci- 

 mens secured in these beds; hundreds are stored 

 away in the drawers and trays of the Museum. I 

 was told that it would cost twenty-five dollars to get 

 a typewritten copy of the list of John Day fossils in 

 the Museum. In that list are many specimens which 

 my party secured or which I purchased from War- 

 field and Day. Professor Cope once wrote me that 

 my collection there represented about fifty species of 

 extinct mammals. 



One day in July I left Jake Wortman in the field 

 and started for Dayville, leading a pack pony. I 

 intended to stay all night with Mr. Mascall, leave 

 my load of fossils, and take back a load of pro- 

 visions. Bill Day had lost one of the horses, and 

 as a large band of Umatilla Indians was encamped 



