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which serve to reveal at once the identity of the animal with the 

 species described by Cope. The material in our possession is better 

 than that at the command of Professor Cope. It is, unfortunately, 

 fragmentary, but very well preserved so far as it goes, and it is quite 

 abundant, though not sufficient in. quantity to enable us to restore the 

 skeleton. The genus Mephitis is represented by at least one species. 

 The remains of the genus Cam's are quite numerous. Several well- 

 preserved jaws show an animal not differing greatly in size from Cam's 

 occidentalism but differing somewhat in the dentition, which more 

 nearly resembles that of the Esquimaux dog of to-day, of which it may 

 have been the ancestor. The Felidas are represented by fragments of 

 an animal comparable in size with the jaguar. Unfortunately there is 

 not much of the skeleton preserved, except the bones of the foot. 



In addition to the remains which I have mentioned there are the 

 remains of several other smaller carnivores represented by teeth and 

 portions of jaws which it has been impossible as yet for lack of time 

 to identify. 



The remains of birds are not infrequent, and among them the bones 

 of a large species undoubtedly belonging to the genus Meleagris are 

 rather numerous. 



The collection also contains the remains of Ophidia and Batrachia. 

 These are scattered and so completely disarticulated as to make resto- 

 ration apparently hopeless, and even determination of the genera 

 problematical. 



It has been of course impossible, on account of the brief time at the 

 command of the writer since the material was received, to carefully 

 work it out and to study it with sufficient care to enable a correct 

 reference to be made in all cases. Mr. Peterson, who took up the 

 material, is inclined to the view that from thirty to forty species and 

 several hundred individuals are represented in the material which has 

 been secured. 



A comparison of the fauna found in this cave with that discovered 

 in a similar cave at Port Kennedy, in the valley of the Schuylkill, and 

 which was made the basis of several papers by the late Professor E. D. 

 Cope, shows many points of similarity and some marked differences. 

 The scarcity of the remains of Megalonyx, which were very abundant 

 in the Port Kennedy deposits, is noticeable. Some of the neo-tropical 

 genera reported by Cope are not found among the remains taken from 

 the Frankstown cave. But the existence of the peccary, the tapir, and 



