Life of Upper Lake Region. 137 



still more closely than Hipparion both in size 

 and form. This Protohippus was also found 

 in Eastern Washington. A banking house in 

 Ellensburg was quarrying stone from a neigh- 

 boring hill for their new building when a 

 workman found some teeth imbedded in a 

 solid rock. These were sent to the ;vnter 

 by W. R. Abrams, who asked if they did not 

 belong to a fossil horse; and they proved to 

 be teeth of the Pliocene horse, Protohippus. 

 For convenience of reference it will be best 

 to designate the Ellensburg locality as part 

 of the Yakima Pliocene, and perhaps a con- 

 tinuation westward of the Touchet Pliocene. 



CAMEL. 



Next to the horse in the variety of interest 

 to which the subject appeals, stands the Camel 

 type among mammals, and in Oregon the 

 Pliocene must, for the present, stand as a 

 record of his life in the past. The fossil 

 camels, like the living members of the family, 

 were divided into two groups, the camel 

 proper and the Auchenia, distinguished by 



