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*Bison, sp. *Equus occidentalis Leidy. 



*Camelid. *Equus pacificus Leidy. 

 *Megalonyx wheatleyi (?) Cope. Crotalus, sp. 



*Megalonyx jeffersonii (?) Har- Mylopharadon conocephalus Baird 



Ian. and Gerard. 



*Megalonyx, n. sp. Ptychocheilus (?) grandis (?) 



*Megalonyx, sp. (Ayres). 



* Mastodon americanus Kerr. Acipenser medirostris (?) Ayres. 



*Elephas primigenius Blumb. 



To this list of species published by Sinclair, the studies of the 

 present author 9 would add the following birds : 



SPECIES OF BIRDS FROM POTTER CREEK CAVE 



Branta canadensis (Linnaeus). *Catharista shastensis Miller. 



Oreortyx picta (Douglas). Buteo borealis (Gmelin). 



Dendragapus obscurus (Say). Falco peregrinus Tunstall. 



*Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus). Falco sparverius Linnaeus 



Indeterminate odontophorid. Otus asio (Linnaeus). 



*Meleagris, sp. *Bubo sinclairi Miller. 

 *Gymnogyps amplus Miller. Colaptes cafer (Gmelin). 



Cathartes aura (Linnaeus). Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm. 



* Species marked with the asterisk (*) are either extinct or are no 

 longer represented in the region. 



Samivel Cave. Samwel Cave was explored by E. L. Fur- 

 long, then of the University of California, who published an 

 account of his work two years after the appearance of Sinclair's 

 paper on the Potter Creek Cave. Furlong's account 10 pictures 

 a cavern not essentially different from that described by Sin- 

 clair. The conditions of interment seem to have been somewhat 

 different, however, since there occurred a number of entire skele- 

 tons of large and small carnivores and one form of ungulate, 

 Preptoceras, which were preserved without fracture of the bones 

 and in the proper anatomical relation. Furlong reaches the 

 conclusion that the cavern was used as a lair by such forms as 

 the bear and the cougar. To this lair the bodies of larger 

 ungulates like Euceratherium and Preptoceras were dragged as 

 prey. Some of the carcasses were left almost entire while others 

 were torn to pieces and the bones more or less broken by the 



Miller, L. H., Univ. Calif. Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., vol. 6, p. 385, 1911. 

 10 Furlong, E. L., Am. Journ. Sci., vol. 22, pp. 235-247, Sept., 1906. 



