48 J. A. Allen— Remains of an Exth.ct Species of Wolf 



addition to these I find an imperfect radius that seems not to 

 differ at all from that of a young male Cervus Canadensis, and a 

 part of another radius that 'does not differ appreciably from the 

 corresponding part of a radius of Antilocapra Americana. 



The remains of the fossil deer now described are those men- 

 tioned by Professor Wyman, namely a left metatarsus, a hume- 

 rus and a radius, all more or less imperfect* Professor 

 Wyman described the humerus as " closely resembling that of 

 the red deer, and of intermediate size between this and the 

 humerus of the caribou." As these cervine remains evidently 

 belonged to a species different from any hitherto described, 

 either extinct or living, I propose for it the name Ceruus Whit- 

 neyi, in honor of their discoverer, Professor J. D. Whitney. 



The remains of Canis consist of a femur, two tibiae and a 

 humerus (the latter and one of the tibiffi in perfect condition), 

 and may not have been those mentioned by Professor Wyman, 

 although he enumerates parts corresponding to these ; since it 

 seems impossible that he could have described them as not dif- 

 fering in size from corresponding parts of the "gray wolf 

 {Canis occickriiaUs Dekay, — C. griseus Sabine)," and as being 

 not distinguishable from them; they in reality indicating a 

 species of nearly twice the size of that animal. The rami and 

 " fragment of a right upper jaw" mentioned by Professor Wy- 

 man as belonging to the same species are not now in the collec- 

 tion. This species seems to correspond in size quite nearly 

 with the Canis dims which Leidy described (first under the pre- 

 occupied name of primcevus, and still later under the name of 

 lndianensis)\ from a portion of an upper jaw found with the 

 remains of Megalonyx, Tapirus, Equus and Cervus firgiinanus 

 in the banks of the Ohio River near Evansville, fndiana, and 

 also with the Canis Haydeni Leidy, described later from the 

 Pliocene sands of the Niobrara River from a fragment of a right 

 ramus. Since of the present species we have only a few of the 

 bones of the limbs, it may be better to give it a provisional 

 name than to refer it to either of the species already described, 

 and await the reception of additional material to show their re- 

 lationship. I accordingly propose for this species the name 

 Canis Mississippiensis. As previously noticed, the remains 

 associated with those now described nearly all belonged to ex- 

 tinct species, and to the fauna immediately preceding the 



* Another specimen referred to under the head of Cervus by Professor Wyman 

 as " an imperfect humerus of a much smaller animal than the preceding" belongs 



f Ganis primcevits Leidy, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. PhUa., vii, 200, 1854. Joum., 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 167, pi. xvii, figs. 11, 12. 1856. (Name preoccupied). 



Canis dirus Leidt, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1858, 21. (Same specimen.) 



Ganis Indianemis Leidt, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vii, 368, 1867. (Same 



specimen.) 



