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stump of a large forest tree. 1 " The remains of a mammoth (species not 

 recorded) were also found in a swamp near Crawford, Ulster County. 114 



Equus complicatus ( = major). Miller 115 records a fossil horse from "Keenes 

 Station, near Oswegatchie River oxbow in Jefferson County. " Dr. Skelton 118 

 also cites a fossil horse (Equus major) from near Troy, Rensselaer County. 

 No evidence is at hand to show that these records have been substantiated. 

 Hay 117 has recently remarked that "no authentic specimens of fossil horse 

 remains have been reported from any deposits overlying the latest sheet of drift, 

 the Wisconsin," and the two records cited above are open to question. They 

 may have been founded on the bones of the recent horse, that of Dr. Skelton 

 being so considered by Hay. 118 



Bison bison was recorded many years ago 119 from the outlet of Chautauqua 

 Lake, 10 feet below the surface in unbroken soil. Only a tooth was found, in 

 a deposit of black muck. 



Vertebrate remains have been found in postglacial deposits near Syracuse. 

 These deposits are believed to be post-Iroquois and to have been made in a 

 dimnishing Onondaga Lake following the Mohawk drainage of Lake Iroquois. 

 They are 400 feet above sea level and 36 feet above the present Lake Onondaga. 

 Mollusks were also found with the vertebrate remains but these have not been 

 identified, as far as known. U9a Four species of mammals are represented, as 

 noted below: 



Ursus americanus. Will and Baumer factory, north side of Ley Creek on 

 east shore of Onondaga Lake. 



Odocoileus virginianus. Same locality as above ; Harbor Brook, near Avery 

 Avenue (city line on west), Syracuse. 



Bison bison. North side of Croton Street (near East Raynor Avenue) and 

 210 feet west of Renwick Avenue, Syracuse, about 10 feet below the surface at 

 junction of muck and clay. 



Elephas primigenius. East side of Limestone Creek near Manlius Station 

 (now Minoa) on West Shore Railroad. 



VTII. CONNECTICUT 



The mastodon roamed about Connecticut during post-Wisconsin time. 

 Stewart 120 , long ago, reported this animal from two localities: in Farmington 



113 Amer. Journ. Sci., (i), XXXII, pp. 377-379, 1837. 



114 Thompson, Amer. Journ. Sci., (i), XXIII, p. 249. 



116 Bull. N. Y. State Mus., VI, No. 29, p. 373. 

 118 Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., VI, pp. 303-304. 



117 Ind. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res., XXXVI, p. 586. 



118 Science, N. S., XXX, p. 890, 1909. 



113 Knight, Amer. Journ. Sci., (i), XXVII, pp. 166-168, 1835. 

 U9a Smith, Bull. N. Y. State Museum, No. 171, pp. 64-72, 1914. 

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