KENTUCKY.
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1. Bigbone Lick, Boone County.—In his account of Bigbone Lick and the collections made there (Monthly Amer. Jour. Geol., vol. I, pp. 158–174, 205–217), William Cooper included in his list of species both Bos bombifrons (Boötherium bombifrons) and Bos pallasii (Symbos cavifrons). Already in 1818 Wistar (Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., ser. 2, vol. I, p. 379, plate XI, figs. 10, 11) had described, without systematic name, the skull which later was made the type of Bos bombifrons by Harlan (Fauna Amer., p. 271). This skull was a part of the collection made at Bigbone Lick by Governor William Clark for President Thomas Jefferson. In the account presented by Cooper (p. [173]) he stated that in the Finnell (sometimes spelled Phinnell) collection, made in 1830, he had found a second head of the species, but what became of it is not known. Harlan, as cited (p. [272]), stated that in the collection of fossils made at Bigbone Lick by Major Long were teeth which probably belonged to the musk-ox. They differed little from those of the bison, but were thicker at the crown, more deeply grooved at the sides, and altogether more robust. In 1870 (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 97), Dr. Leidy mentioned that in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, in Cambridge, he had seen a skull of Symbos cavifrons which Professor Shaler had collected at Bigbone Lick. The present writer has seen this skull. A list of the species found at this locality is recorded on page [403].
2. Bluelick Springs?, Nicholas County.—In the collection at Yale University is the hinder part of a skull of Symbos cavifrons, bought in 1876 from Henry Ward, Rochester, and labeled as found in the Bluelick region. The locality is not more definitely known.
3. Winchester, Clark County.—In the U. S. National Museum is a part of the rear of the skull of Symbos cavifrons labeled as found at Winchester. It is credited to J. W. Fitch. It shows well the condyles, some of the base of the skull, and the base of the right horn-core.
Besides the remains above described a part of a cranium of Symbos cavifrons from Kentucky is preserved in the Boston Society of Natural History. Leidy (Smithson. Contrib. Knowl., vol. V, art. 3, p. 16) stated that it had been found in the alluvium of Kentucky River.