NO. 5 MAMMALS FROM DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MILLER 5 



lus, I (apparently belongs with the calcanea) ; metapodials, 9; im- 

 perfect scapula, I ; ulna, i ; radius (perfect) i ; radius (proximal end 

 only), I. 



The remains pertain to at least two adult dogs and two puppies. 

 Taking the radius (total length 127.6 mm.) scapula, and teeth as 

 guides, the animal must have been about the size of a Scotch terrier 

 whose skeleton is now in the National Museum, No. 21997 (total 

 length of radius 120.2 mm.). 



I am unable to find characters in any of these specimens that sug- 

 gest specific or racial peculiarities as compared with domestic dogs 

 of European origin or with pre-Columbian dogs from either North 

 or South America. Furthermore, as the middens near Monte Cristi 

 yielded bones of both pig and cow, there is no reason to suppose that 

 the dog had any other than European origin. The apparent absence 

 of dog bones from all the other deposits of Indian' refuse is a clear 

 indication that the natives did not habitually use these animals as food. 



CERCOPITHECUS ? sp. ? 

 Plate 2, fig. 4 



Naranjo Abajo. — Distal end of tibia, i. 



The well preserved distal end (42 mm.) of a monkey's tibia was 

 found among the miscellaneous long bones dug from the kitchen- 

 midden on the Naranjo Abajo key. The exact level at which it lay 

 was not determined. In state of preservation the bone is essentially 

 like the rodent leg bones from the same deposit. 



I cannot identify this fragment with the corresponding part of 

 any American primate, chiefly because the shaft of the bone, im- 

 mediately above the articular enlargement is too robust. By this 

 character the fragment (pi. 2, fig. 4) can at once be distinguished 

 from specimens of Cehiis (pi. 2, fig. 6) Ateles, and Alouatta, the only 

 common genera containing species large enough to approach it in size. 

 When compared with Cercopithecus (pi. 2, fig. 5), however, the dis- 

 crepancy is less obvious, though I have not been able to find an African 

 tibia that I should regard as certainly pertaining to the same species. 

 As members of this genus were early introduced into the Lesser 

 Antilles I am inclined to believe that the monkey of the Naranjo 

 Abajo key had been brought over alive before the Indians abandoned 

 the coast of Samana Bay. 



BROTOMYS VORATUS Miller 



Plate I, fig. 3 



Railroad cave. — Skull, lacking braincase and all teeth except pm*, 

 I ; fragments from interorbital region, 2 ; mandibles, 7. 



