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seaboard, there were numerous rail-like and other paludicoline forms 

 of various sizes, which have long since become extinct. 



In some respects, this humerus of Telmatornis resembles that of a 

 Coot (Fulica, PL XIII, Fig. 104); but this extinct form — or associa- 

 tion of forms — I am inclined to think had more ralline characters in 

 their organizations, including the skeleton, than anything else, 

 although we really have no certainty of this; and, with so little material 

 at hand, I would not be surprised to know that, after all, the reference 

 was quite wide of the mark. 



The Yale Collection has in it a second specimen of Telmatornis rex — 

 a left humerus (distal two-thirds) which, although presented by a 

 different collector, has all the appearance of having belonged to the 

 same individual bird to which the type specimen belonged. This 

 specimen is in two pieces, and a phalanx of a crocodile was found 

 with it. 



EOCENE BIRDS. 



Genus Aletornis Marsh. 



Marsh, Amer. Joum. Sci., ser. 3, IV, 1872, 256. Type, by subsequent designa- 

 tion, Aletornis nobilis Marsh (Hay, 1902). 



Marsh described five species of his genus Aletornis, and the types 

 of all of them are before me at the present writing. Reproductions 

 of my photographs of them will be found in Plates II and VI of this 

 article. 



As described by Marsh, the species of Aletornis are as follows: 

 Aletornis bellus. 

 Aletornis gracilis. 

 Aletornis nobilis. 

 Aletornis pernix. 

 Aletornis venusius. 

 These specimens were described by Professor Marsh as given above 

 in his article entitled "Notice of some new tertiary and post- tertiary 

 birds" (pp. 256-258). They are now all considered as ha\dng been 

 found in the Eocene (Bridger) of Wyoming. 



