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Besides these finely preserved skulls and 

 teeth, there have been gathered many frag- 

 ments of the same type, showing peccaries 

 were abundant in* these lower beds of the 

 Shoshone. 



SMALL RODENTS. 



Rabbits, squirrels, rats and other small 

 rodents in minute fragments, and sometimes 

 in well preserved specimens, are found in 

 these lower beds. 



LEPTOMERYX. 



In the same rocks from which we gath- 

 ered the teeth of these rabbits, we found some 

 teeth that would be at once pronounced as a 

 miniature form of deer, but about the size 

 of the rabbit. There is such a small animal, 

 the Leptomeryx, known as the Musk deer in 

 South Eastern Asia, but the knowledge of 

 that fact hardly prepares one for the sight 

 of its fossil remains in the sediments of our 

 lower lake where they are often found. 



