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of the camel family were found in digging 

 wells near Walla Walla, All of these locali- 

 ties yielding camel fossils are presumably ac- 

 cepted as Pliocene. 



CANIS. 



The fine figure of a dog's head the reader 

 will find on Plate XVIII. This fossil was 

 badly broken when taken from the rocks, but 

 with a great deal of labor it was reconstructed. 

 It is one of the few fossils the writer has ever 

 attempted to name, but when the restoration 

 was complete it looked so dog-like that it 

 seemed unwise to send it away from home to 

 be named a procedure that in other years 

 had cost the writer many attractive fossils so 

 it was decided to find for it a name at home. 

 And inasmuch as this dog could not go to 

 the large cities of the world where the record 

 of new species was kept, it seemed fitting to 

 treat him like a country cousin and call his 

 name Canis Rurestris. 



YAKIMA GROUP. 



Before entering further into the geological 

 relations of the fossils on which the record 



