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in Otisville, Orange County, IST.Y., and is now in the Yale Museum, One 

 bog ill New Jersey near Hackettstown is reported to have afforded portions 

 of six skeletons. When alive, the height must have been 12 or 13 feet, and 

 the length, adding 7 feet for the tusks, 24 or 25 feet. Remains of the 

 undigested food have been found with the skeletons, showing that it lived 

 in part on spruce and fir trees. J. Collett states that a skeleton found in 

 Indiana contained between the ribs " a crushed mass of herbs and grasses, 

 similar to those which grow in the vicinity " ; and the bed of clay contained 

 also some modern freshwater and land shells ; and he concludes that the 

 extinction of the species must have been a comparatively recent event. 



The Horse, Equus excelsus, was a fit cotemporary, as Leidy observes, of 

 the Mastodon and Elephant. Several other species of Equus have been 

 found in ISTorth America, showing that Korth America was abundantly pro- 

 vided with Horses in Champlain time, though not having among them the 

 modern Horse, E. cabaUus. 



The Cervalces Americanus of Harlan, a species related to the Elk and 

 Stag, as the name implies, was of greater size than the famous Irish Deer, 

 Cervus giganteus. It had much larger legs and a very large head. Harlan's 



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Antlers of Cervalces Americanus (x ^). Scott, '85. 



specimen was from Natchez, Miss. The head and antlers, by W. B. Scott, of 

 a specimen from Warren County, New York, are represented of reduced size 

 in Fig. 1559. 



Bison latifrons L. was a Bison or Buffalo, much larger than the existing 

 Buffalo, which lived in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys, and over the 

 Southern States to Texas. There were also species related to the Musk Ox, 

 Ovibos bombifrons and 0. cavifrons. 



