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Miller: Pacific Coast Avian Palaeontology 



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Cave. They were either absent from the region or did not fre- 

 quent the vicinity of the cave mouth. It seems not improbable 

 that these small carnivores had a distinct relation to the num- 

 ber of gallinaceous bird remains to become entombed in the 

 various cave deposits. 



The following list of mammals is recorded by Furlong from 

 the Samwel Cave : 



Furlong's List of Species from Samwel Cave 



Ursus americanus Pallas. 

 Ursus, n. sp. 

 Ursus, sp. 

 Vulpes, sp. 



Urocyon townsendi Merriam, C. H. 

 Procyon, near lotor Linn. 

 Putorius arizonensis Mearns. 

 Mephitis oecidentalis Baird. 

 Mustela, sp. 



Felis, near hippolestes Merriam, 0. 

 H. 



Aplodontia, near major Merriam, 

 C. H. 



Aplodontia rufa Rafinesque. 

 Erethizon epixanthus Brandt. 

 Arctomys, sp. 

 Lepus auduboni Baird. 



Lepus, sp. 



Thoinomys monticola Allen. 



Thomomys, sp. 



Mierotus, sp. 



Neotoma fuseipes, Baird. 



Neotoma, sp. 



Citellus douglasi Richardson. 

 Seiurus, sp. 



Euceratherium collinum Sinclair 



and Furlong. 

 Preptoceras sinelairi Furlong. 

 Haplocerus, sp. 

 Odocoileus, sp. a. 

 Odocoileus, sp. b. 

 Equus oecidentalis Leidy. 

 Elephas, sp. 

 Megalonyx, sp. 



Species of Birds 



Indeterminate anserine a. 



Indeterminate anserine b. 



Indeterminate anserine c. 



Oreortyx picta (Douglas). 



Indeterminate odontophorid. 

 *Gymnogyps amplus Miller. 



Cathartes aura (Linnaeus). 

 *Catharista shastensis Miller. 



Accipiter velox (Wilson). 



Buteo swainsoni Bonaparte? 



* Species of birds marked with 

 foreign to the locality. 



from Samwel Cave. 



Falco sparverius Linnaeus. 



Asio wilsonianus (Lesson). 



Bubo virginianus (Gmelin). 

 *Bubo sinelairi Miller. 



Glaucidium gnoma Wagler. 

 *Micropallas whitneyi (J. G. 

 Cooper) . 



Colaptes cafer (Gmelin). 



Cyanocitta stelleri (Gmelin). 



the asterisk (*) are extinct or else 



Hawver Cave. — Hawver Cave is now located in the same 

 faunal zone as the caves previously discussed and at about the 

 same elevation, though some two degrees to the southward. The 



