72 We Explore Dead Lodge Canyon 



seen an exhibition of this peculiar kind of elec- 

 tric display on the prairie I was sure it repre- 

 sented what is called St. Elmo's Fire at sea. 



On July 18, 1913, I note that I had worked all 

 day on Charlie's large trachodont which Mr. 

 Lambe called, as I said above, Gryposaurus. 

 Twenty feet of the skeleton, besides the head was 

 present. On page 23, Book A, field notes for 

 1913, I say: "The skull is 3 feet 3 inches long. 

 Distance between the orbits, 9 inches. It is 19 

 inches from the margin of the mandibles to the 

 top of the skull. Which has a high narrow set 

 of nasals, with curved beak shaped like Brown's 

 New Mexican Trachodont." Then again, on page 

 25, "I have worked all day on Charlie's huge 

 trachdont. It is a wonder, poorly preserved in a 

 huge brown flint concretion that is shattered in- 

 to irregular fragments, that break through the 

 bones as well. The under part of the skeleton, 

 however, is in grey sandstone and clay. The 

 body lay on its left side, then took a turn and 

 rested on the ventral surface. The ossified ten- 

 dons are different from the ordinary duckbills, 

 both with or without crests; they are often 

 barbed in the center and bifurcated at one end, 

 with the other flattened. This specimen is evi- 

 dently new. I am very anxious to save it." 



The fluted pyramids and Gothic towers stand 

 out distinctly to the south of the specimen in the 

 early morning and after sundown: but in the 

 heat of the day the colors blend so, the sharp out- 



