208 O. CG. Marsh on Cretaceous and Tertiary Birds. 
species may very justly be named Laornis Edvardsianus, m 
honor of M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, of Paris, whose great 
work on Fossil Birds, now in course of publication, promises to 
place this hitherto neglected branch of paleontology on a firm 
foundation.* 
This unique specimen was found in the greensand of the 
upper, Cretaceous marl bed, at Birmingham, New Jersey, in the 
pits of the Pemberton Marl Company, and was presented to 
the Museum of Yale College by the superintendent, J. C. Gas- 
kill, Esq. 
Paleotringa littoralis Marsh, gen. et sp. nov. 
s 
inner condyle is somewhat narrower than the outer. The inter- 
condyloid space is smooth, with the-exception of a faint trans- 
verse groove, and is wider than either condyle. The trochlear 
surface is broad, slightly concave transversely, and its median 
portion nearly flat, especially at the extremity. Its uppe 
terior surface projects slightly beyond the face of the adjoiming 
8 The ecto-condyloid surface is smooth, and somew 
concave. The supratendinal bridge is narrow, very thin, trans- 
verse, and has its outer edge on the median line. The tendinal 
canal is very broad and deep, and its floor nearly flat. In its 
general features it resembles the canal of the Herring, or Silvery 
so 
the shaft. The interior margin of the canal is the more acute, 
end of the oblique ligament. 
The shaft of the tibia is slender, and has its narrowest pat 
at the beginning of the lowest fourth, or a little above where 
the margins of the tendinal canal begin. From this pomt 
* Rech rches les Oi ao flea de la Fr Ato. Paris, 1867-70. 
