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occipital fossa approaching to the shape of an inverted Y, a sharp 

 ridge on the supraoccipital above the foramen magnum, and the 

 surfaces for muscuhir attachment on the paroccipital processes much 

 larger. The femur provisionally referred to this species is shorter 

 and relatively stouter than the corresponding bone of P. inter- 

 medins. 



In the characters of the cranium this species differs equally as 

 widely from existing forms as from P. intermedius. 



Hah. Europe (Bavaria). 



47862. The slightly imperfect cranium, wanting the whole of the 

 {Fig.) beak and the bones of the palate ; from the Middle Miocene 



of Klcin-Sorheim. The type ; the occipital region figured 

 in fig. 10, A. 



Presented bi/ Ilerr H. voa Bezold, 1873. 



47864. Fragment of the hinder portion of the cranium, showing 

 part of the occipital and parietal regions, with a natural 

 cast of a portion of the brain ; from Klein-Sorheim. 



Presented by Herr B. von Bezold, 1873. 



47864 a. Natural east of the greater portion of a brain probably 

 belonging to this species ; from Klein-Sorheim. 



Presented by Herr B. von Bezold, 1873. 



47863. A nearly entire late cervical vertebra probably referable to 



this species ; from Klein-Sorheim. The centrum is larger 

 and narrower than in the corresponding vertebra of P. 

 mitratus. Presented by Herr B. von Bezold, 1873. 



48170. A left femur, provisionally referred to this species ; from 



the ^fiddle Miocene of Lierheim, Hahnenberg, Bavaria. 

 This specimen has a total length of 0,090, the corresponding 

 dimension in the femur of P. intermedius averaging 0,104. 



PurcJtased, 1877. 



48171. The right femur, apparently belonging to the same indi- 



vidual as the preceding ; from Lierheim. 



Purchased, 1877. 



Pelecanus gracilis, Milne-Edwai-ds K 



Imperfectly known. Distioguished from existing species by its more slender 

 propurtious and relatively longer tarso-metatarsus. 

 Hab. Europe (France). 

 From the Lower Miocene (Upper Oligocene) of AlUer. 



' Oiseaux Fossiles de la France, vol. i. p. 250 ( 1867-(J8). 



