ANATID^. 105 



42804. Slab of rock showing a considerable portion of the skeleton ; 



{Fig.) from the Upper Miocene of CEningeu, The typo; de- 

 scribed and figured by Meyer in the ' Palaeontographica,' 

 vol. xiv. p. 126, pi. XXX. fig. 2, in Heer's ' Urwelt der 

 Schweiz,' 2nd ed, p. 434, fig. 3G6, and also noticed by 

 Milne-Edwards in his ' Oiscaux Fossiles de la France,' 

 vol. i. i)p. 127, 128. The specimen shows the sternum 

 nearly entire, the scapulas and coracoids, part of the 

 furcula, the two humeri and bones of the forearm, the 

 carpus, fragments of the metacarpus, and the proximal 

 phalangeal of the principal digit. 



Van Breda Collection. PurcJutsed, 1871. 



Anser (?}, sp. b. 



Known by the undermentioned specimen, which indicates a species 

 somewhat larger than A. cinereus. 

 Hah. Europe (France). 



27632. Tho distal extremity of the left tibio-tarsus ; from the Lower 

 Miocene (Upper Oligocene) of Puy-de-D6me. This speci- 

 men, of which the posterior aspect is somewhat imperfect, 

 presents all the characters of the tibia of the Aiiatidrf, and 

 agrees best in size with Ansc): The greatest transverse 

 diameter is 0,018. Croizet Collection. Purchased, 1848. 



Genus BERNICLA, Boie '. 

 The beak is much shorter than in Anser. In the humerus the 

 delto-pectoral crest rises abruptly from the shaft. The coracoid is 

 more slender tlian in Anser, with a deeper depression and larger 

 pneumatic foramina beneath the inner surface of the head. 



33n-iitcla bmita (Pallas =). 



Syn. Anser brenta, Pallas ^ 



Uah. Europe, Xorthern Asia, and N. America. 



41766. A left radius, probably belonging to this species ; from the 

 superficial deposits of Walthamstow, Essex. Except for 

 being slightly smaller, this specimen agrees very closely 

 with the corresponding bone of a recent skeleton. The 



» J sis, 1822, p. .003. 



- Zuog. Kusso-Asiat. vol. ii. p. 229 (1811).— J/wer. ^ Loc. cit. 



