I 46 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT. 
canal bank is not known. However, additional specimens derived 
from stratum No. 2, were thrown out by the workmen while repair¬ 
ing the foundation for the railroad bridge. 
BIRDS. 
Two species of birds have been obtained from stratum No. 2 
of the section. One of these, a small bird, is represented by a hu¬ 
merus and part of a radius found at the locality on the south bank 
of the canal, 465 feet west of the bridge, while sifting the sand in 
which the human bones were imbedded.. The second species is a 
large bird of which a number of the bones of the wings have been 
obtained. Of these bones, the humerus was found lying loose on 
the bank, while the other bones were taken in place from the north 
bank, 370 feet west of the bridge. The bird bone illustrated to 
show engravings (fig. 3, pi. 22) was found at the same place in 
the bank and was very probably a piece from a wing bone of this 
species. 
JABIRU? WEILLSI. SP. NOV. 
PI. 26, figs. 1-4; text-figure 15, p. 157. 
The relationship of the large bird found in stratum No. 2 ap¬ 
pears to be with the storks and the species is referred provisionally 
to the genus Jabiru. When compared to the recent Jabiru tnyc- 
teria (Mycteria americana ) the bones of the wing, although ap¬ 
proximately the same in circumference, are found to be longer and 
hence proportionately more slender than those of that species. 
The metacarpal bones of the fossil bird are flattened while those 
of the recent species are more nearly oval in cross section, in this 
respect approaching Ciconia rather than Jabiru. The corocoid is 
small as compared with the wing bones, and it is not impossible 
that more than one species is represented. 
Measurement of wing bone :. 
Length of humerus_280 mm. 
Least circumference of humerus_ 90 
Length of ulna (estimated) _270 
Least circumference of ulna_ 38 
Length of metacarpal bones_ 150 
Least circumference of the larger metacarpal_ 29 
The species is named for Mr. Isaac M. Weills, who has contrib¬ 
uted so largely to the development of the vertebrate fauna found 
