256 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



BLOOD FROM THE EYE OF THE HORNED TOAD. 



We published not long ago a notice of a peculiarity of 

 the horned toad of California in the expulsion of a blood-like 

 fluid from the eye, and a reader of the Weekly writes to give 

 his own testimony to the fact. He states that he has caught 

 numbers of them in Texas, and frequently noticed the ejection 

 of a bloody fluid from the inner canthus of the eye, once re- 

 ceiving the discharge in his own eye while holding the animal 

 at a distance of at least a foot. The sensation experienced 

 was quite painful for a few minutes. 



NEW FOSSIL REPTILE. 



A new fossil reptile from the cretaceous strata of Kansas 

 has just been described by Professor Cope under the name 

 of Cynocercus incisics. The peculiarity of this reptile consists 

 in having the articular faces of the vertebra deeply excavated 

 above and below, so as to give them a transverse character. 

 A new crocodilian from the same region was also described, 

 under the name of Hyposaurus ivebbii. 2 D,MSS.,Janna?'y 

 5,1872. 



MARSH ON THE PTERODACTYLS. 



Among other collections made by Professor Marsh during 

 his explorations in 1871 were additional specimens of the 

 pterodactyl, first obtained in 1870. Portions of five individu- 

 als were procured ; and among them nearly all the bones of 

 the right wing of one, which exhibited the pterodactyl struct- 

 ure in its perfection. 



The teeth found with the other remains were somewhat sim- 

 ilar to those of the pterodactyls of the cretaceous of England, 

 being smooth, compressed, elliptical, and somewhat curved. 

 A second species, still larger than the other, was obtained in 

 the upper cretaceous, near the Smoky River, in Western Kan- 

 sas. The expanse between the tips of the fully extended 

 wings was probably as much as twenty-two feet. 



In all, Professor Marsh has determined the existence of 

 three species from the same region, and which he character- 

 izes in advance sheets of the April number of the Journal of 

 Science. In the same journal Professor Marsh refers to the 

 interesting discovery that the body of mososaur reptiles was 



