1881.] The Fauna of the Nickajack Cave. 877 
(From the American Naturalist, November, 1881.) 
THE FAUNA OF THE NICKAJACK CAVE. 
BY E. D. COPE AND A. S. PACKARD, JR. 
ilge cave is situated near that point of the southern boundary 
of Tennesse where it is joined by the line -which separates 
the States of Georgia and Alabama. In dimensions it ranges 
with the Mammoth and Wyandotte caves of Kentucky and Indi- 
ana, whose faune have already been described in earlier volumes 
of the NaTura.ist. Many miles of galleries have been explored, 
and no end has yet been reached. The entrance is in the north- 
ern side of a hill, not far from the road that passes on the south 
side of the bottom of the Tennessee river. It is of much more 
imposing proportions than that of either of the caves already 
mentioned, . The visitor climbs the hill from the road, following 
