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crested duck-bill lying athwart a precipitous 

 trail down over the bad lands from the prairie. 

 The tail was partially exposed, and not noticed 

 by the Lndians and Cow Boys who for years had 

 traveled on this trail (Fig. 21). Charlie found 

 two in the same quarry. He had discovered the 

 first one with the tail sticking out from under a 

 mass of clay about 18 feet high. The prospect 

 of heavy labor never discouraged us. So we at- 

 tacked the bank and uncovered the skeleton. At 

 the further end of his specimen he found the tail 

 of another leading still farther into the face of 

 the excavation. As there was new surface ground 

 to still explore we covered it with tons of earth 

 to discourage any would-be explorer here, and 

 went back to it the next year. 



In Figure 22 the reader will see the excavation 

 left after the two duckbilled dinosaurs were re- 

 moved. During the season of 1913, Charlie had 

 the most remarkable success. For though he 

 spent six weeks of incessant labor collecting his 

 carnivore, he discovered a duckbill on his way 

 to assist the teamster with a load. On another 

 occasion while walking to his carnivore he found 

 a new trachodont at the point of a hill (See Fig. 

 23). This skeleton was preserved in a hard 

 siliceous concretion. During the winter of 1914- 

 15 George prepared the skull for permanent ex- 

 hibition (Fig. 24). It was placed in the Hali 

 of Fossil Vertebrates, the most perfect duck- 

 billed dinosaur skull I have ever seen. It is in 



