NO. 2 AXIFAUNA OF PLIilSTOCFNE IN FIJIRIDA WETMORF I7 



BOTAURUS LENTIGINOSUS (Montagu) 



American bittern 



Ardcii Icntii/inosa Montagu, Suppl. Orn. Diet., 181,^, text and plate. 



Parts of two humeri were obtained Iiy \V. W. Holmes iti the 

 Seminole area, and of another Ijy J. K. Moore on Hog Creek near 

 Sarasota, Florida. This inhabitant of marshes is widely distributed 

 in Florida at the present time. 



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JABIRU MYCTERIA (Lichtenstein) 



Jabiru 



Ciconia iiiyclrria Lieliten.stein, Al'liandl. Kon. Akad. Wiss. Berlin ( Phys. 



Klass.), for 1816-1817, i8ig, p. 163. 

 Jabiru? zveillsi Seliards, Florida State Geol. Surv., 8th Ann. Rep., 1916, p. 146; 



pi. 26, figs. 1-4, text-fig. 15. 



Apparently the great jabiru stork was common in Florida during 

 the Pleistocene as it is represented in the present collections by many 

 fragments of bones from a number of localities. In the Seminole 

 Field near St. Petersburg W. W. Holmes obtained a number of frag- 

 mentary specimens, including parts of the tibio-tarsus, coracoid, 

 scapula, ulna, and metacarpus. Most of these are well fossilized 

 though one fragment appears quite modern. A fragment from the 

 head of a tibio-tarsus was obtained by J. E. Moore near Venice. A 

 perfect metacarpal, a coracoid, and part oi a metatarsus are foinid 

 in collections from the Itchtucknee River, Columbia County, in the 

 Florida State Geological Survey. At Melbourne in the excavations 

 on the golf links J. W. Gidley secured the lower end of a right 

 metatarsus, and parts of an ulna and a metacarpus from the Number 

 Two stratum. In the collection made at Melbourne by C. P. Singleton 

 for the Museum of Comparative Zoology there are parts of three 

 right and one left tibio-tarsi and both extremities of a right meta- 

 tarsus with the central part of the shaft gone. 



After careful comparison of the type^ specimen of. Jabiru wcUhi, 

 a right humerus obtained at Vero, Florida, there is nothing evident to 

 separate it from the modern Jabiru inyctcria. It was differentiated 

 in the original description principally on larger size, but, though large, 

 it is equalled by modern birds in dimension, and is similar to them 

 in its conformation. The original description gives the total length 

 of the type humerus as 280 mm. Since then the bone has been broken 

 and restored, in this process being lengthened until now it is 293 mm. 



