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phia, vol. vii. — Dr. Leidy reports the discovery, by Mr. Joseph 

 Willcox, in a crevice in Tertiary limestone, at Ocala, Marion Co., 

 Florida, of species of Elephant, Horse, Llama, and a Saber- 

 toothed Tiger. The last is about as large as the existing tiger 

 of Asia, and is named Machairoclus Floridanus. The Horse is 

 the species E. fraternus, or Domestic Horse. The Llama was 

 identified from a tooth, which is larger than the corresponding 

 one of the recent Auchenia Llama of South America. The 

 Elephant remains are probably those of E. primigenius. 



At Peace Creek, according to collections by Mr. Willcox and 

 Mr. T. S. Moorehead, from a sand-bar exposed at low water and 

 explored for phosphates, remains were found of the Tapirus 

 Americanus of South America ; a Horse, perhaps the domestic 

 horse ; a Hippotherium, the 3-toed horse, of the species IT. in- 

 genuum or H. plicatile Leidy ; Bison Americanus, upper molar * 

 Cervus Virginianus, antlers, bones, teeth ; American Elephant ; 

 a Chlamydotherium, probably C. Humboldtii Lund, a species 

 found in the Brazil caverns, the specimens dermal plates ; also 

 another Brazilian Glyptodon, which is probably the Hoplophorus 

 euphractus Lund, and the Glyptodon (Schistopleurum) asper ; 

 Megalonyx Jeffersoni, first phalanx ; the Manatee, Manatus an- 

 tiquus, and several Dolphins ; Emys euglypha Leidy, a Trionyx, 

 and a large Tortoise, Testudo crassiscutata Leidy ; besides remains 

 of probably the Alligator Mississippiensis, and of a number of 

 fishes. 



Collections of bones from the Salt Mine of Petite Anse, 

 made by Mr. Wm. Crookes and presented in 1883 to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution, include, according to Dr. Leidy, remains of 

 Mastodon Americanus, a Mylodon, and a Horse, the Equus 

 major. A specimen of the teeth of Equus major is also reported 

 from "a bog on the confines of Bond and Fayette counties, Illinois. 



Remains of the Quaternary Peccary, Platygonus compres- 

 ses, from a gravel bank a few miles from Rochester, N. Y., 

 were obtained by Dr. Leidy from Professor H. A. Ward, of 

 Rochester. Other known localities of the fossil are Galena, 

 Illinois, a cave in Kentucky, near Columbus, Ohio, in Iowa, in 

 Benton Co., Mo., Augusta Co., Va., and Mexico. Dr. Leidy, in 

 his article on the Platygonus, presents the details of a comparison 

 of the skeleton with that of a Dicotyles. Dr. Leidy also states 

 that a large species, Platygonus vetus Leidy, has been found in 

 Mifiiin county, Pa. Several of the species above mentioned are 

 illustrated on plates i to viii. 



9. Joseph Willcox on the identity of the modern Fulgur^per- 

 versus with the Pliocene F. contrarius Conrad. — In a note pub- 

 lished by Dr. Leidy in Trans. Wagner Inst., ii, 51, Mr. Willcox 

 points out the fact that the gradations in specimens from the 

 Miocene to the recent form appear to prove that the former was 

 the precursor of the latter. Mr. Willcox also shows that the 

 non-spinose Strombus alatus was probably the original form of 

 S. pugilis. 



