FOSSIL BIRDS. 349 
ALETORNIS BELLUS Marsh. 
American Journal of Science, iv, 258. Oct., 1872. 
A still smaller species, probably belonging to a different genus. From 
the same locality, and also in the Yale museum. 
TELMATORNIS PRISCUS Marsh. 
American Journal of Science, xlix, 210. March, 1870. 
A species about as large as the King Rail (2allus elegans), and probably 
allied to the /tallide. From the Cretaceous formation. Found near Horn- 
erstown, New Jersey, and preserved in the Yale museum. 
TELMATORNIS AFFINIS Marsh. 
American Journal of Science, xlix, 211. March, 1870. 
A somewhat smaller species from the same formation and locality. Also 
in the museum at Yale. 
PALMOTRINGA LITTORALIS Marsh. 
American Journal of Science, xlix, 208. March, 1870. 
About equalling a Curlew in size. The remains were found in the Creta- 
ceous green-sand, at the above mentioned locality, and are now preserved 
at Yale. 
PALHOTRINGA VETUS Marsh. 
American Journal of Science, xlix, 209. March, 1870. 
A smaller species, from the same formation, found at Arneytown, New 
Jersey. The known remains are in the Philadelphia Academy. 
PALMOTRINGA VAGANS Marsh. 
American Journal of Science, iii, 865. May, 1872. 
Intermediate in size between the two preceding species. Discovered in 
the same formation, near Hornerstown, New Jersey; now in the museum 
of Yale College. 
NATATORES. 
SULA LOXOSTYLA Cope. 
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, xiv, 236. Dec., 1870. 
A species not so large as the common Gannet (S. bassana). From the 
Miocene of North Carolina. Remains preserved in Prof. Cope’s collection. 
GRACULUS IDAHENSIS Marsh. 
American Journal of Science, xlix, 216. March, 1870. 
A typical Cormorant, rather smaller than G'. carbo. From the Pliocene 
of Idaho. Most of the known remains are deposited in the Yale museum. 
GRACULAVUS VELOX Marsh. 
American Journal of Science, iii, 363. May, 1872. 
This bird was related to the Cormorants, and was rather smaller than 
Graculus carbo. The remains were found in the green-sand of the Cretaceous 
formation, near Hornerstown, New Jersey, and are now at Yale College. 
