VERTEBRATE REMAINS, PORT KENNEDY BONE DEPOSIT. 227 



Measurements. 



mm. 



Length of dental series, exclusive of incisors ; no. 1. 130 



" from canine to m T , exclusive ; " 48 



tv f anteroposterior ; " 21 



Diameters, m ? { , l -, 



2 [ transverse ; " 12 



-p.. , I anteroposterior; " 15 



Diameters, nw < , l -, D 



6 { transverse ; " Id 



Depth, ramus at pm T ; " 41 



" " at m ¥ posterior root ; " 45 



Length of m-%; no. . 19 



'•' of m-g ; " 15 



" of mi; " 17.5 



" of mi, " 26 



" of canine (total chord) ; 57 



(crown); 23 



tv 9 (anteroposterior; no. 4. 29 



Diameters, m- 2 - < , v > 



[ transverse ; " 1 / 



There is no difference between these specimens and the corresponding parts of 

 the black bear. 



CANIS Linn. 

 Canis priscolatrans Cope (PI. XVIII, figs. 3-3g.) [Type No. 57, Mus. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.] 



Remains of clogs are less abundant than those of other carnivores in the Port 

 Kennedy ossuary. Excluding foxes, they consist of one right and two left superior 

 sectorials of as many individuals ; two superior true molars and a pmi of the right 

 side of a fourth individual ; parts of canines of two others ; and the distal end of a 

 tibia, a right astragalus and a metatarsal, of probably different individuals. 



The bones last mentioned are very large, exceeding those of the largest wolf 

 known to me, and may have belonged to Canis indianensis of Leidy. Without 

 other parts of the skeleton, however, this cannot be exactly determined. One of 

 the superior sectorials is of large size, about equalling the large specimen of C. lupus, 

 called gigas by Townsend. The three superior molars of a single individual belong 

 to an animal of about the average size of the wolf, and somewhat smaller than the 

 individual gigas. It is these that I regard as the type of a distinct species, having 

 important points of resemblance to the coyote. 



The tubercular molars are characterized by the general compression and acute- 

 ness of the cusps and crests. The external cusps are not as elevated as in C. lupus, 

 but are rather low, and are separated to the base, as in C. la trans, and are com- 

 pressed and acute. The conules in the m 1 are not distinct but are, as in C. lupus, fused 

 into the crest which has the protocone at its internal angle. The internal cingu- 

 lum is large and of usual form. There is a sharp cingulum along the external base 

 of the crown. The m^ is like the m T with the usual differences, as in C. latrans 

 and C. lupus ; it also has a distinct external cingulum. The pmi has the dimen- 



