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basin in a small ravine that had been hollowed out of the Niobrara 
chalk, and considerably below the Loup Fork beds, which here 
yieided teeth of Protohippus placidus. In the vicinity, and from a 
higher horizon were obtained teeth of Protohippus lenticularis, a 
typical Goodnight beds species. There can be no question of the 
local character of the Elephas deposit. Everything indicates that 
the spot was the site of some oid spring to which the different 
animals had come and died. 
A large series of Hlephas primigenius bones were obtained some 
years ago from the reddish alluvium of Clark county. 
Bison americanus: Teeth agreeing quite with this species were 
obtained some vears ago from eight or ten feet below the surface 
in the alluvium of the Wakarusa valley. There is also a jaw of this 
species in the collection from the southern part of the state bearing 
this label: “Hound on strip pit (coal), on S. L. Cherry’s place, in blue 
muck clay and on top of coal, six or seven feet from surface.” 
Awhile ago Professor Hay sent to me for examination a part of a 
skeleton from the western part of the state, partly fossilized, and 
which Hay thought to have been a contemporary with extinct 
species. | 
Bison antiquus: The only known occurrence of this species is in 
Gove county, in the valley of the Smoky Hill, where Mr. H. T. Mar- 
tin obtained for our museum two years ago a complete skeleton, 
which will be mounted. The material in which it was found was 
quite like that of the Elephas and Platygonus deposits not far dis- 
tant. As already stated, with these specimens were found arrow- 
heads, well fashioned but small. 
Bison crampianus: This species was described by Cope from a 
part of a skull found near Wellington, associated with Hlephas prinu- 
geuwus. 
Bison alleni: This species was described from a specimen dis- 
covered in the Blue river near Manhattan. The description is 
meagre. The horizon is located in the “lower Pliocene.” Upon what 
evidence I know not, as the type specimen was purchased by myself 
from the finder of it. 
Alces species indet: An extinct speciesof mooseoran allied animal 
is represented by maxillary and mandibular bones in the University 
