AND AVES OF NORTH AMKIUCA. 



237 



This gaimett was somewhat smaller than the 8. bassana of our northern coasts, and approached more nearly 

 those of the tropical seas. 



Miocene Cliffs of Calvert Co., Maryland. Mns. Nostr. 



GRACULTJS. 

 GRACULUS IDAHENSIS, Marsh 



Sillim. Am. Journ. Sol. Arts, 1870, 21 (i. 



Fresh Water Pliocene, Castle Creek, Idaho. 



picopo D E B . 



CATARRHACTES, Briss. 



CATARRHACTES ANT1QUUS, Marsh. 



Sill. Amer. Journ. Soi. Arts, 1870, 818. 



"The left humerus almost identical with the one below mentioned, both hi form and size, from Tarboro', Edge- 

 combe Co., N. C, presented by Dr. .Booth. Leidy, Pr. A. N. BcL, Phila., 1868, 387, ?? Miocene. 



"A right humerus, resembling in its construction that of a Curlew, from a railroad cutting on the banks of the 

 Penobscot River, Bangor, Maine, 47 feet below the surface." Leidy, 1. c. According to Marsh, this belongs to the 

 genus Catarrhaotes. Postpliocene. 



I. A M K I. L I n O S T It E s . 



LAORNIS. Marsh, 

 LAORNIS EDWARRSIANUS, Marsh. 



Sill. Amer. Journ. Kci. Arts, 1870, 306. 



Middle Green Sand bed, Upper Cretaceous New Jersey. 



L © X « 1 1* E If 2f E S . 



PTJFFINTTS, Leach. 

 rUFFINUS CONRADI, Marsh. 



.Sill. Am. 3mm. Boi. Arts, 1870, 212. 



Miocene Maryland. 



" The lower extremity of a left humerus and a right radius, from a miocene formation of Maryland, presented by 

 T. A. Conrad. The specimens resemble in construction the corresponding parts in a snipe, but are as large as in the 

 Curfew." Leidy, 1. c. 



«.! It A L E A E • 



GRITS, Linn. 

 G1US SAYDEMI, Marsh. 



Loo. cit. 1870, 214. 



"Tlie lower end of a left tibia, from the Pliocene Niobrara River, of Nebraska, discovered by Dr. llayden, in 

 association with a multitude of mammalian remains. It resembles the corresponding part in a Crane. It is the only 

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