APPENDIX E. 

 TERTIARY FOSSILS OF SULA. 



Remains from the Miocene Deposit. — It is clear from the 

 discoveries which have been made in the Miocene of the Tertiary 

 Epoch, that many birds existed in Europe at that period, which 

 were nearly allied to those of the present day. Among the 

 bones indistinguishable from those of existing genera, are some 

 attributable to Sula. 



In the United States Sula loxostyla was described by Mr. 

 E. D. Cope from a coracoid found in Maryland (" Trans. American 

 Philosophical Society," XIV. (1870), p. 236). 



In France, where a good many fossils of birds seem to have 

 been dug up [see " Revue Frangaise d'Ornithologie," 1912, 

 p. 283), Professor A. Milne-Edwards in 1867 described and 

 figured a pelvis from the Lower Miocene, under the name of 

 Sula arvernansis (" Oiseaux Fossiles de la France," Vol. I., 

 p. 267, and Plate XLIIL, Fig. 12). 



He also referred to the same genus [t.c, p. 271, Plate XLIV., 

 Fig. 9) a pelvis which had been previously described by Professor 

 Gervais as Mergus ronzoni (" Mem. de I'Acad. de Sc. de Mont- 

 pellier," Vol. I., p. 270, and " Pal. Franc," 2nd edition, p. 412.) 

 In 1874 Milne-EdAvards further described Sula pygmcea from 

 bones found in Gironde (" Bibl. des Hautes-Etudes," VI., 

 Art. v.). 



FINIS. 



