BONES OF ORMOND MOUND. 175 



American Museum of Natural History. He reports 

 that these consist of the following: 



Virginia deer r Cariacus virginianus Bod. Bones 

 of skull and limbs. 



Dog or small wolf, Canis sp. ? Jaws and teeth of. 



Porpoise. Tail vertebrae of. 



Great Auk, Plautus impennis L. Humerus of. 



Gopher, Xerobates polypJiemus Daudin. Bones of. 



Alligator snapping turtle, Macrochelys temminckii 

 Troost. Bones of. 



Sharks, two species. Vertebrae of. 



*Bony fish, Chcetodipterus sp.? Interspinal 

 bones of. 



Of these by far the most interesting and unlooked 

 for is the humerus of the extinct Great Auk, which 

 was taken at about the middle of the thickest layer of 

 shells (No. 3 of the section), near the point where 

 my hand rests in the accompanying plate. This 

 bird, "which lost the use of its wings and perished off 

 the earth in consequence," has heretofore been sup- 

 posed to have limited its range to the North Atlantic 

 Region. The Great Auk was formerly common on 

 the coast of Iceland and found in vast numbers off 

 the coast of Newfoundland, especially at Funk Island. 

 It was a little larger than a goose, and formed an im- 



*Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, in a subsequent excavation in the mound, se- 

 cured the bones of several other animals, which have been identified by 

 Dr. Hay as follows : Raccoon, opossum, heron, alligator, gar pike, wolf 

 fish, angel fish, cat fish, and other fish of the genera Sphyrsena and Prio- 

 notus. 



