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aiul other extinct animals of late Pliocene to Pleistocene age. 

 The other remains found in the caveat Glen Eyrie were iden- 

 titied last summer, when I was first able to compare them with 

 extensive series of skeletons in the United States National 

 Museum. The smaller bones — a jaw and two femurs — were 

 soon found to belong to a species of Woodcliuck, different 

 from the common one" of eastern North America, and not im- 

 probably so from the Yellow-bellied Woodcliuck, which is the 

 present species of the central Rocky Mountains. The large 

 bones pertained to the right fore limb of a young ruminant, 

 or two-toed nngulate, which some ancient beast of prey had 

 doubtless dragged into the cave as a choice morsel to feed 

 npon at leisure. They were humerus and cannon-bone 

 (metacarpus), in which part of the epiphyses were missing, 

 not yet having united with the shaft. It was at first thought 

 that they might have pertained to a Rocky Mountain Sheep, 

 or Big-horn. From the skeleton of this, however, they widely 

 differed, as they also did from the Mountain Goat of North- 

 western America, and from skeleton after skeleton with which 

 they were compared, until the whole range of modern two- 

 toed ungulates of North America had been gone over. Then 

 Asiatic forms were tried, and it was soon found that the bones 

 closely agreed with those of the CapricornSj or Goat-antelopes, 

 a genus of animals technically known as Ncnwrhcrdiis, and 

 represented to-day by several species living in the Himalayas 

 and other mountains of Asia, Japan and Formosa. They be- 

 long to the family Bovidac, which includes also the Cattle, 

 Sheep, Goats and Antelopes. They are intermediate in their 

 characters between the Goats and Antelopes, whence the 

 alternative name, Goat-antelopes; they are also sometimes 

 called Mountain Antelopes. It is interesting to note that 

 they range at altitudes of 3,000 to 8,000 feet, the cave at Glen 

 Eyrie being within these limits. 



There are two sections of the genus Xemorluvdiis. One 

 includes clumsier built animals, which, however, resemble the 

 deer in having a tear-pit in the face, and which are solitary in 

 habit; these are the Serows, of the sub-genus Capricornis. 

 The other, of the section or sub-genus Kemas, includes the 

 graceful forms, the Gorals, which lack tear-pits, and go in 



