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Dr. H. Woodward — On Wingless Birds. 



M. Cretaceous, W. Kansas, Hesper 



erorms crassipes 

 „ ,, gracilis 



N.W. Kansas, Ichthyornis dispar 



"Western Kansas 



Texas, U.S.A. 

 Kansas 

 N.W. Kansas 

 "Western Kansas 



agilis 

 anceps 

 lentus 

 tener 



victor 



U. Cretaceous, New Jersey, U.S.A., Laornis Edvardsianus, Marsh, 



)) ,, „ Falccotringa littoralis „ 



}> j> ,, „ vagans „ 



>> >> )> M vetus „ 



)> ,, ,, Telmatornis priscus „ 



J, ,, ,, „ affinis „ 



>j ,, ,, Graculavus velox „ 



M ,, ,, ,, pumilus ,, 



Eocene. 



Miocene. 



Newer Miocene. 

 Miocene. 



Miocene. 

 Post- Pliocene. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Meudon, Paris, Gastornis parisiensis. 

 Belgium, Ga.itornis Edwardsii, DoUo. 

 Sheppey, Lithornis vuUurinus, Owen. 

 (London Clay), Argillornis longipennis, Owen 



londinimsis, Owen ; Odontopteryx toliapicus, Owen ; 



Halcyon ; Laridm (sp.). Gulls? Ardeidm, Herons? 

 Hempstead (Freshwater marls). Isle of "Wight, Ftenomis. 

 Hordwell, Macromis (Seeley). 

 Glarus (Plattenberg), Prutornis (Osteornis). 

 Paris Basin, Agnopterus (Flamingo ?), ext. ; Cormoranus ; 



Coturnix (2 sp.) ; Falio ; Gypsornis [Rallidce ?), ext. ; 



Leptosomus; Limosa; Palceocircus, ext.; Falceortyx, ext.; 



Pelidna ; Ballus ; Sitta ; Tringa ? 

 Aix, Provence, Fossil Eggs and Feathers. 

 Lacustrine deposits, Armissan, in Languedoc, Tetrao. 

 Apt, Provence, Bird remains indetermined. 

 Marls of Ronzon, Auvergne. Various Bird remains. 

 Swabian Alps (Fraas). Ditto. 



N. America, "Wyoming (0. C. Marsh), 5 species of Birds. 

 New Mexico, U. States Territory, Biatryma gigantea, Cope. 



France-Bourbonnais and Auvergne (remains of nearly 50 



species of birds). 

 Mentz, many identical forms. 

 Berne, Freshwater deposits. 

 Provence and Languedoc. 

 (Bone-beds) Sansan in Gascony. 

 Greece, Pikermi, Attica. 



Siwalik Hills, India. Struthio, sp. 

 Steinheim, Bavaria, 8 sp. of birds. 



Anas and Pelecanus. 

 N. America. All of them existing species. 

 New Zealand, Binomis, Palapteryx. 

 Madagascar, JEpyomis (3 species). 

 Mascarene Islands, Erythromaehus, etc. 

 Brazil (Bone-caves), Rhea, sp. 

 Australia (Caves), Brommornxs, Bromceus. 



Argala. ? Cormorant. 

 Ibis, Ardea, Palceloches, 



The labours of many Naturalists combined, of whom the names of 

 Sclater, "Wallace, Newton, and some others should be specially men- 

 tioned, have enabled us to map out the world into six great Natural- 

 History Kegions, to which, strange to say, flying birds, with few 

 exceptions, readily correspond in their geographical distribution. 



