NO. 15 MAMMALS FROM HISPANIOLA MILLER 7 



of the greater trochanter are packed with a felt-hke mass of fine hair 

 (pi. 2, fig. 5), in the same condition as the femur of a roof rat (pi. 2, 

 fig. 4) near which it was found. 



ISOLOBODON sp. 



Two halves of the palate from a young individual. On the left side 

 the teeth have fallen out and the alveoli are packed with hair (pi. 2, 

 fig. 6a). The femur of a young hystricoid rodent (pi. i, fig. 6) is 

 probably a part of the same animal. It is shorter and decidedly more 

 robust than the femur that I refer to Brotomys. 



(b) INDIAN DEPOSIT 



Mr. Krieger informs me that he found numerous kitchenmiddens 

 on the valley floor near Constanza. In most of those that he examined 

 there were few bones, and these few were fragmentary. The midden 

 at Cerro de Monte, from which he took numerous mammalian remains 

 in fairly good condition was not more than 20 feet long, 6 feet wide 

 and 2\ feet deep. In it he found no artifacts of Spanish origin ; but 

 the collection includes an atlas, calcaneum, astragalus, phalanx, and 

 six teeth of the domestic pig (j^ertaining to at least two individuals) 

 an upper molar of a colt, and five mandibles, two femurs and a 

 humerus of Rattus rattus subsp. All of these remains of European 

 mammals, together with a few human bones, are in exactly the same 

 condition as the bones and teeth of the extinct rodents with which 

 they were associated. 



NESOPHONTES PARAMICRUS Miller 



A femur 18 mm. in length unquestionably pertains to this species. 

 Its presence in an open kitchenmidden like the one at Cerro de Monte 

 rather strongly suggests that the Indians may have used the small 

 insectivores, as well as the large Solenodon, for food. The humerus 

 of Nesophontes that I found in the kitchenmidden in a cave on San 

 Lorenzo Bay might easily have been dropped there by an owl (Smith- 

 sonian Misc. Coll., Vol. 82, No. 5, p. 4, December 11, 1929). Such 

 an origin for the femur at Cerro de Monte seems unlikely. 



BROTOMYS VORATUS Miller 

 Mandible, i ; femur, i. 



