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the Vertebrate Paleontologists follow Cope, and 

 Marsh in their views of these animals when, in 

 reality they are simply reptiles that have long 

 since become extinct, leaving no living represen 

 tatives. The nearest being the lizards. 



I climbed the rugged buttes and ridges. Many 

 are entirely devoid of vegetation. Our work was 

 in a canyon four or five hundred feet deep and 

 measuring a mile from prairie to prairie, with 

 long creeks or coulees running back into the flats. 

 Their head branches spreading out like an open 

 fan, as on Sand Creek, exposing thousands of 

 acres of denuded rock to the sun. I was so for- 

 tunate as to find two more or less complete skele- 

 tons of a new duck-billed dinosaur, one with 

 much of the beautiful skin impression preserved. 

 The small scales, often mere tubercles, polygonal 

 in shape arranged like mosaic-work in a pave- 

 ment with ornamental elevations " limpet-like'' 

 in form, they are arranged in paralell row r s along 

 the abdominal walls and were reduced in size 

 and number in the tail. Mr. Lambe has figured 

 some of these lovely scales. He calls the new 

 creature Stephanosaurus,, marginatus * or the 

 crowned lizard. Barnum Brown discovered a 

 wonderfully complete skeleton here, he gives it 

 the name of Corythosaurus casuarins. Because 

 the crested head resembles a Cassowary. I am 

 delighted to be able to use with the permission of 

 The American Museum authorities Deckert's re- 



*The Ottawa Naturalist, January, 1914. 



