8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 82 



PLAGIODONTIA ^DIUM F. Cuvier 



Palates, 2 ; mandible, i ; odd cheekteeth, 4. One of the palates is 

 represented on plate 2 (fig. 7). 



PLAGIODONTIA HYL^UM Miller 



Palate with full set of teeth, i (pi. 2, fig. 8) ; premaxillae with 

 incisors, 2 ; occipitals, 2 ; mandibles, 6. 



ISOLOBODON LEVIR (Miller) 



Palates, 4 (one with full set of teeth) ; premaxillae with incisors, 

 7; mandibles, 34 (18 left, 16 right). Also numerous small bones and 

 fragments of skulls that appear to have pertained to this animal. 



CAVIA PORCELLUS (Linnaeus) 



(Plate 2. figs. 0, 9a) 



Fragment of zygoma and palate with pm* in place, i ; mandibles, 4 

 (2 left, 2 right) ; femora, 2. One of the femora pertained to an adult, 

 the other to a young animal. The mandibles (two of which are figured 

 on pi. 2, figs. 6 and 6a) represent four individuals. They are similar 

 to those that Mr. Krieger unearthed at Anadel in 1929 (see Miller, 

 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Vol. 82, No. 5. p. 11, December 11, 1929), 

 and I am unable to detect any characters by which they can be dis- 

 tinguished from jaws of the ordinary domestic animal. The same is 

 true of the right half of a palate with all four teeth in place that 

 Mr. Krieger collected at Boca Chica, on the coast about 20 miles east 

 of Santo Domingo City in 1930. 



From Oviedo's account of the " cori "' it seems evident that guinea- 

 pigs were well known to the Spaniards at Santo Domingo City during 

 the first half of the sixteenth century. Whether they brought the 

 animals from South America or found them already in the possession 

 of the natives at the time when Hispaniola was discovered is a ques- 

 tion that may never be answered. I was originally inclined to suppose 

 that the Spaniards themselves were responsible for the occurrence of 

 guineapigs on the island (Smithsonian Misc. Coll., Vol. 82, No. 5. 

 p. 14, December 11, 1929). Oviedo's record for Santo Domingo City 

 and Mr. Krieger's discovery of remains at Boca Chica and on the 

 shore of Samana Bay are in accord with this supposition, as both 

 localities were settled l)y the Spaniards. In fact, some remnants of a 

 Spanish house can still be seen at Anadel in the same field with the 

 kitchenmidden. But it is less easy to harmonize the belief in Spanish 



