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found by the late Mr. E. Billings and sent to Prof. Leidy, of 

 Philadelphia, who described the same and illustrated them in 

 the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences for 1856.* The 

 bones of the posterior extremeties discovered were also figured 

 in Vol. I of the Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, by Mr. 

 Billings. There is also a portion of the pelorcard of a PJioca in 

 the collections of the Geological Survey. 



Feather of Bird. — Several feathers of birds have been found 

 during the past sixteen years. 



In 1 88 1, the Marquis of Lome, presented to the Geological 

 Museum at Ottawa a magnificent specimen of fossil feather, 

 (genus and species of the bird unknown), and since then several 

 specimens were collected and recorded by the writer from the 

 nodules of the clays both at Green's Creek or along the Ottawa 

 River at Besserers. 



(17) Wright's brick-clay pits, north of Moore's property, 

 Aylmer Road, Tetreauville, Que., collected by H. M. Ami and 

 Ruggles Wright, 1889. 



In a sandy layer about 30 feet below the surface of the 

 ground in hill side : 



I. Saxicava rugosa. 2. Phoca sp. probably young of Phoca 



vitulina. 



Amongst the specimens recently acquired by the Peter 

 Redpath Museum from the Pleistocene of the Ottawa Valley is 

 that of a portion of the lower jaw of a young seal, Pagophilus 

 Groenlandicus. This species was recorded in the Report of the 

 Geol. Branch for 1893-94,! and formed part of the collection of 

 fossil organic remains which Sir James Grant had in his 

 possession. 



(18) Dundas Co., Out. — Found in the front part of lot 9, con- 

 cession v., township of Matilda. Collected by members of the 

 Iroquois High School Natural Science Association, 1895- 1896: 



I. Macoma fragilis Fabricius. 2. Saxicava rugosa Linnaeus. 



* See also Can. Nat. & Geol. 1858, paper by Principal J. Wm. Dawson "On 

 the newer Pliocene and post-pliocene deposits cf the vicinity of Montreal, with notices 

 of fossils recently discovered in them. " 



t Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. VIII., No. 7, pp. 103-104, Ottawa, Oct., 1894. 



