CONTENTS 



PACE 



Xo. 1. The Condor-like Vultures of Kancho La Brea, by Loye Holmes 



Miller 1 



No. 2. The Tertiary Mammal Beds of Virgin Valley and Thousand 

 Creek in Northwestern Nevada: Part I, Geologic History, 

 by John C. Merriam 21 



No. 3. The Geology of the Sargent Oil Field, by William F. Jones .... 55 



No. 4. Additions to the Avifauna of the Pleistocene Deposits at 



Fossil Lake, Oregon, by Loye Holmes Miller 79 



No. 5. The Geomorphogeny of the Sierra Nevada Northeast of Lake 



Tahoe, by John A. Reid 89 



No. (5. Note on a Gigantic Bear from the Pleistocene of Rancho La 



Brea, by John C. Merriam 163 



No. 7. A Collection of Mammalian Remains from Tertiary Beds on 



the Mohave Desert, by John C. Merriam 167 



No. 8. The Stratigraphic and Faunal Relations of the Martinez For- 

 mation to the Chico and Tejon North of Mount Diablo, by 

 Roy E. Dickerson 171 



No. 9. Neocolemanite, a Variety of Colemanite, and Howlite, from 



Lang, Los Angeles County, California, by Arthur S. Eakle.... 179 



No. 10. A New Antelope from the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea, by 



Walter P. Taylor 191 



No. 11. The Tertiary Mammal Beds of Virgin Valley and Thoasand 

 Creek in Northwestern Nevada: Part II, Vertebrate Fauna, 

 by John C. Merriam 199 



No. 12. A Series of Eagle Tarsi from the Pleistocene of Rancho La 



Brea, by Loye Holmes Miller 305 



No. 13. Notes on the Relationships of the Marine Saurian Fauna de- 

 scribed from the Triassic of Spitzbergen by Wiman, by 

 John C. Merriam 317 



No. 14. Notes on the Dentition of Omphalosaurus, by John C. Mer- 

 riam and Harold C. Bryant 329 



No. 15. Notes on the Later Cenozoic History of the Mohave Desert 

 Region in Southeastern California, by Charles Laurence 

 Baker 333 



No. 16. Avifauna of the Pleistocene Cave Deposits, by Loye Holmes 



Miller 385 



No. 17. A Fossil Beaver from the Kettleman Hills, California, by Louise 



Kellogg 401 



No. 18. Notes on the Genus Besmostylus of Marsh, by John C. Merriam. 403 



No. 19. The Elastic Rebound Theory of Earthquakes, by Harry Field- 

 ing Reid , 413 



Index 445 



