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long, the extra length being obviously due to crushing of the shaft 

 and the separation of these parts. In a previous publication ' the 

 present writer indicated that sellardsi was probably equivalent to 

 modern inyctcria, a belief that is now substantiated. 



The fossil material indicated above shows the same range in in- 

 dividual variation in size as is found in the modern material examined. 



The jabiru is also known from the Pleistocene of Cuba.^ 



Family THRESKIORNITHIDAE 

 PLEGADIS sp. 



Glossy ibis 



The lower end of a left tibio-tarsus from the Seminole Field col- 

 lected by W. W. Holmes is from a juvenile bird and shows little 

 evidence of fossilization. It is not practicable to determine whether 

 it represents Plegadis falcincllus or P. guarauna, both of which occur 

 in Florida. 



GUARA ALBA (Linnaeus) 

 White ibis 

 Scolopax alba Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 145. 



The distal ends of right and left humeri, of two right ulnae, and 

 the lower end of a left tibio-tarsus were collected by W. W. Holmes 

 in the Seminole Field. The white ibis is locally common in Florida 

 at the present time. 



This ibis is here first reported as a fossil. 



Order ANSERIFORMES 



Family ANATIDAE 



CYGNUS COLUMBIANUS (Ord) 



Whistling swan 



Anas cohimbianus Ord, in Guthrie's Geogr., 2d Amer. ed., 1815, p. 319. 



The proximal ends of right and left coracoids were obtained by 

 W. W. Holmes in collecting in the Seminole Field. In modern times 

 this swan is found in winter occasionally in Florida, mainly along the 

 Gulf Coast, its principal winter range in eastern North America being 

 farther north. 



The whistling swan has been known previously as a fossil only from 

 the Pleistocene l)eds at Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



^Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 301, Feb. 29, 1928, pp. 2-3. 



