172 CAEINAT^. 



form than the corrcsjjondiug bone of the existing T. canutus 

 is very noticeable. Bruvard Collection. 



Genus TOTANUS, Cimer\ 



This skull has distinct supraorbital grooves and a median frontal 

 depression, the profile being deeply angulated in advance of the 

 orbit. The tarso-metatarsus is more slender and less compressed 

 than in Tringa. and the phalangeals are longer and more slender. 



Totanus, sp. 



Agreeing closely in size with the existing T. ocliroj^us. 

 Hah. Europe (Switzerland). 



A. 152. A split slab of rock showing the imperfect bones of one of 

 the hind limbs ; from the Upper Miocene of (Eningen. 

 The femur is wanting, the proximal extremity of the 

 tibio-tarsus destroyed, and both extremities of the tarso- 

 metatarsus are imperfect. The terminal phalangeals of 

 the third and one of the lateral digits are missing. The 

 proportions of the bones are almost exactly the same as in 

 T. oehro^ms., so that there can be little doubt as to the 

 generic reference. In Tringa the phalangeals are much 

 shorter. No history. 



Totanus lartetianus, Milne-Edwards ". 



A small species of about two-thirds the dimensions of the existing 

 T. canescens. The tibio-tarsus is relatively shorter than in that 

 living species, and thus approaches the Charadriidce. 



Hah. Europe (France). 



31267. The right coracoid, with the proximal extremity and the 

 posterior sternal angle imperfect ; from the Lower Miocene 

 (Upper Oligocene) of Allier. Accords with the specimen 

 figured by Milne-Edwards in his ' Oiseaux Eossiles de la 

 France,' pi. Ixiii. figs. 12-15 ; and also closely resembles 

 the corresponding bone of existing species. 



Bravard Collection. Purc7iased, 1852. 



1 Lemons d'Anat. Compar. vol. i. pi. 2 (1800). 



^ Oiseaux Fossiles de la France, vol. i. p. 402 (1867-68). 



