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stork, Jabiru weillsi, previously described by the writer, and a left 

 humerus of a passerine bird related, according to Dr. Shufeldt, to 

 the meadow larks. These two species and the first of the following 

 list, No. 7550, are from stratum No. 2 of the section. All other 

 birds of this list are from stratum No. 3. 



Report on Fossil Birds from Vero, Florida, by R. W. Shufeldt 



No. 7550. The right humerus, nearly perfect, of a teal. This bone I 

 have carefully compared with all the humeri of our smaller existing ducks of 

 various genera. It comes quite close to Querquedula discors, but belonged 

 to a different species of that genus. I propose to describe it as Querquedula 

 floridana. 



No. 6934. This is the distal moiety of the right tibio-tarsus of a barn owl 

 (Tyto pratincola). The condyles are slightly chipped off posteriorly. 



No. 6773. Distal half of the right tarso-metatarsus of a water bird; 

 probably a Larus, about the size of Larus atricilla. Whether this belonged to 

 the same specimen as the next (No. 6933) I cannot say. 



No. 6933. Left carpo-metacarpus of some tern or gull; I am inclined to 

 believe, from the slight preponderance of characters, a gull of the genus Larus. 

 It was a considerably larger species than Larus atricilla, but comes close to it. 

 It was also a larger bird than Stirna maxema. I have compared it with the 

 corresponding bone in many species of terns and gulls. Apparently it does 

 not represent any of our existing forms. For this doubtless extinct species 

 I propose the name of Larus vero. 



No. 7552. Humerus (right side), imperfect; head of bone not recovered. 

 Length of fragment 8.35 cm. No. 6797. The shaft of an ulna of a large bird. 

 No. 6932. Piece of a long bone, the shaft (humerus?) of some large bird. 

 These three specimens too fragmentary for reference. 



No. 7005 (in two pieces; smaller fragment not numbered). The left ulna 

 of Cathartes aura. 



No. 6774. The distal two-thirds of the left tarso-metatarsus (imperfect), 

 of some heron (Ardea), larger than Nycticorax n. naevius. Not quite perfect 

 enough for exact reference. 



No. 6932. The distal portion of the left tarso-metatarsus of Ardea herodias 

 (adult) ; the trochleae slightly abraded posteriorly. 



No. 7554 (including three vertebrae). The two small vertebrae are from a 

 bird, and belong to the distal end of the cervical chain. It is hardly possible 

 to say to what kind of bird they belong, though they agree more or less with the 

 posterior cervical vertebrae of several average waders. The large elongate 

 vertebra is from the cervical region of another wader, a true heron of the genus 

 Ardea. I have compared it with the corresponding bone in the neck of all 

 our medium-sized waders, as herons, spoonbills, egrets, and many others, and 

 I find that, in all particulars, it comes nearest to the same vertebra in Herodias 



