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THE OSPREY. 



LIST OF FOSSIL BIRDS DESCRIBED BY O. C. MARSH, 



WITH A REFERENCE TO THEIR GEOLOGICAL 



POSITION, THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION 



AND LOCALITY. 



The few chang-es in g'eneric reference made 

 in this list are in accordance with the fourth 

 edition of Coues's "Key to North American 

 Birds". 



JIKASSIC BIRDS. 



1. I^aopteryx priscus, 1881, Wyoming;. 



CRETACEOUS BIRDS. 



2. Apatornis celer, 1873, Kansas. 



3. Baptornis advenns, 1877, Kansas. 



4. Cimolopteryx rarus, 1889, Wyoming". 



5. Cimolopteryx retnsvis, 18Q2, Wyoming. 



6. Coniornis altus, 1893, Montana. 



7. (Traculavns velox, 1872, New Jersey. 



8. (iraculavus pumilus, 1872, New Jersey. 

 M. Herperornis regalis, 1872, Kansas. 



10. Hesperornis crassipes, 187b, Kansas. 



11. Hesperornis gracilis, 1876, Kansas. 



12. Ichthyornis dispar, 1872, Kansas. 



13. Iclithyornis agilis, 1873. Kansas. 



14. Ichthyornis anceps, 1872, Kansas. 

 1.^. Ichthyornis lentus, 1877, Texas. 

 Ih. Ichthyornis tener, 1880, Kansas. 



17. Ichthyornis validus, 1880. Kansas. 



18. Ichthyornis victor, 1876, Kansas. 



1<^». Laoniis Edvardsianus, 1870, New Jerse^^ 



20. Pala?otring-a littoralis, 1870, New Jersey. 



21. Pala?otringa vagans, 1872, New Jersey. 



22. Pala?otring-a vetus. 1870, New Jersey. 



23. Telmatornis priscus, 1870, New Jersey. 



24. Telmatornis affinis, 1870, New Jersey. 



1871. 



1872. 



25. 

 26. 

 27. 

 28. 

 29. 

 30. 

 31. 

 32. 

 33. 

 34. 

 35. 

 36. 

 37. 

 38. 



39. 

 40. 

 41. 

 42. 



TERTIARY BIRDS. 



Aletornis nobilis, 1872, Wyoming. 

 Aletoniis bellus, 1872, Wyoming-. 

 Aletornis gracilis, 1872, Wyoming-. 

 Aletornis pernix, 1872, W^-oming-. 

 Aletornis venustus, 1872, Wj^iming. 

 Aquila Danana, 1871, Nebraska. 

 Barornis regens, 1894, New Jersey. 

 Bubo leptosteus, 1871, W^-oming. 

 Grus Haydeni. 1870, Nebraska. 

 Lomvia antiqua, 1870. North Carolina. 

 Meleagris antiquus, 1871, Colorado. 

 Phalacrocorax idahensis, 1870, Idaho. 

 Puffinus Conradi, 1870, Maryland. 

 Uintornis lucaris, 1872, Wyoming-. 



QUATERNARY BIRDS. 



Grus proavus, 1872, New Jerse3'. 

 Loiuvia affinis, 1872, Maine. 

 Meleagris altus, 1870, New Jersey. 

 Meleagris celer, 1871, New Jersey. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY RELATING TO BIRDS. 



1870. Notice of some Fossil Birds from the Creta- 

 ceous and Tertiary Formations of the 

 United States. Amer. Jour. Set. (2), 

 vol. 49, pp. 205-217. 

 Note on the remains of Fossil Birds. 

 /did., p. 272. 



187 



1875. 

 1876. 



1877. 



1879. 

 1880. 



1881. 



1883. 

 1889. 

 1892. 

 1893. 

 1894. 

 1895. 

 1896 



1897 



Notice of some new Fossil Mammals and 

 Birds from the Tertiary Formation of 

 the West. /die/. (3), vol." 2, pp. 120-127. 

 Discovery of a remarkable Fossil Bird. 



Ibid., vol. 3. pp. 56-57. 



Preliminary Description of Hesperornis 



rei^a/is, with notices of four other new 



species of Cretaceous Birds. Ibid., pp. 



360-365. 



Notice of some new Tertiary and Post 



Tertiary Birds. Ibid , vol. 4", pp. 256-262. 



Notice of a new and remarkable Fossil 



Bird. Ibid., p. 344. 

 Notice of a new Reptile from the Cretace- 

 ous, /bid., p. 406. 

 Synopsis of American Fossil Birds. 

 Coues's "Kevto North American Birds", 

 Salem, 8°, pp. 347-350. 

 Notice of new a species of Ic/if/iyoniis. 



Auier. Jour. .Sri. (3), vol. 5, p. 74. 

 On a new sub-class of Fossil Birds ((>d().'i- 



foniif/ies). Ibid., pp. 161-162. 

 Fossil Birds from the Cretaceous of North 



America. Ibid., pp. 229-230. 

 On the OdontornHhes, or Birds with Teeth. 



/bid., vol. 10, pp. 403-408, pis. ix and x. 

 Notice of new Odontornitlies. Ibid., vol. 



11, pp. 509-511. 

 Characters of the Odontoniitlics. with 

 Notice of a new allied Genus. Ibid., vol. 

 14, pp. 85-87. 

 Notice of some new Vertebrate Fossils. 



/bid. 249-256. 

 Introduction and Succession of Verte- 

 brate Life in America. Nature., vol. 

 16, pp. 448-450, 470-472 and 489-491, Lon- 

 don; and .Inter, four. Sci. (3), vol. 14, pp. 

 338-378. 

 The Vertebra; of recent birds, /bid., 



vol. 17, pp. 266-269. 

 Odontornitlies: a Monograph on the Ex- 

 tinct Toothed Birds of North America. 

 With 34 plates and 40 woodcuts. 4°, xvx, 

 and 201 pp. r. S. (leol. Exploration 40th 

 Parallel, vol. 7, Washington, and Mem. 

 Peabody I\/us. Yale Coll., vol. 1. 

 Discovery of a Fossil Bird in the Juras- 

 sic of Wvoming-. Amer. Jour. Sci. (3), 

 vol. 21, pp. 341-342. 

 Jurassic Birds and their allies. Science, 



vol. 2, pp. 512-513. 

 Birds with Teeth. Third Ann. /iept. /di- 

 rector U. S. Geol. Surv.. pp. 45-88. 

 Discovery of Cretaceous Mammalia. Amer. 



Jour. Sci. (3), vol. 38, footnote, p. 83. 

 Notes on Mesozoic Vertebrate Fossils. 



Ibid., vol. 44, pp. 171-176. 

 A new Cretaceous Bird allied to Hes- 

 perornis. Ibid., vol. 45, pp. 81-82. 

 A Gigantic Bird from the Eocene of New 



Jersey. Ibid., vol. 48, p. 344. 

 Fossil Vertebrates. Jo/m son's Universal 

 Cyclopcrdia, new ed., vol. 8, pp. 491-498. 

 . Vertebrate Fossils [of the Denver Basin]. 

 Monographs U. S. Geol. Surv., vol. 27, 

 pp. 473-550. 

 The Affinities of Hesperornis. Amer. 

 Jour. Sci. (4), vol. 3, pp. 347-348. 



