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THE EXTINCT BATRACHIA, UEI'TILIA 



Ornithic fossil among all the vertebrated remains from Nebraska, amounting to several tons in weight, which Dr. L. 

 had detected." (Leidy, Proceedings Academy Nat. Sciences, Phila., p, 287). 



PAL^EOTRINGA, Marsh. 



PALJ50TRINGA LITTORALIS, Marsh. 



L. c, 208. 



Cretaceous New Jersey, upper Green Sand. 



PAL^EQTRINGA VETTJS, Marsh. 

 L. c, 209. 



Cretaceous New Jersey, ! Lower bed. 



"The lower end of a left tibia, from Burlington Co., N. J., described by Dr. J Farlan, as the remains of a Snipe, 

 Scolopax (Med. and Pliys. Kiss., p. 280.") Leidy, 1. e. 



T E LMATORSTIS, Marsh. 



TELMATORNIS PRISCUS, Marsh. 



Loc. cit., p. 210. 



Cretaceous New Jersey ; upper Green Sand. 



TELMATORNIS AFFrNIS, Marsh. 

 L. c, 211. 



Cretaceous New Jersey; upper Green Sand. 



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MELEAGRIS, Linn. 



This genus is known from the remains of a single species from the tertiary strata, of 

 New Jersey. The portions which furnish its characters arc two tibiae, a femur and a cor- 

 acoid bone, elements which can be fully relied on for the purpose. 



Coracoid bone with subtrigonal shaft, and distally but little dilated, the outer half of 

 its inner face distally occupied by a very large pneumatic foramen, which continues for 

 some distance as a tube independent of the general cavity of the bone. Tibia, with the 

 pneumatic foramen of the head rudimental. Crest large and prominent, the anterior ris- 

 ing into a prominent spine, the external with thickened decurved margin. Supraligamen- 

 tous bridge moderately wide, transverse; condyles well separated, the external face of the 

 inner incurved. 



The general characters of this genus are intermediate between Crax and Gallus, the 

 Cumssows and the common fowls. The great pneumatic foramen of the coracoid is want- 

 ing in the typical Gallinac, but characterize the Melcagridac and Southern Hemisphere 

 group of the Cracidae and Megapodiidae. It is larger in the Meleagris, while in Talle- 



