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of Paterson. The southern edge of the drift in New Jersey is 
stated to pass along the line of Short Hills extending from Perth 
Amboy, on the north side of the Raritan, to the First Mountain. 
Between First and Second Mountains it fills the valley ~ less 
than half a mile south of the Morris and Essex railroad. say 
thence be traced to Long Hill, ieee a Dover and on the 
Delaware below i é whole line of ‘due moraine is 
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hagerents plain and well define 
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- This number of the Bulletin contains papers by G. B. Samwurr 
on the Ornithology of the Rio Grande; by E. D. Corx on Creta- 
oo on t e Ma: anh of Fort Sisseton, Dakota; by R. 
Ripgeway of oe Ansiioan Herodiones; by 8S. HI. ScuppER on 
the Butterflies of Southern Utah and peau ER ; mira Coves and 
Yarrow on the Herpetology of Dakotah and y 
E. Coves on the Consolidation of the hoofs in the Vi irginian deer, 
and on a breed of solid-hoofed pigs apparently established in 
exas, 
In the case of the deer the consolidation is confined to the horny 
Substance of the true hoof. 
With regard to the pigs of Texas, the animal is completely 
and the anchylosis of the terminal phalanges of the 
eet of horny ouleunaiiat — is curiously like the frog of 
the horse’s hoof. The breed is so firmly established that no ten- 
dency to revert to the oniginal partes eae form is observable. 
mens and ‘facts to Dr. Coues 
oofed boar with a sow of the ordinary type, a majority of the 
. litter have the peculiarity of the male parent. 
