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I met with a single bone of a parrot, sand-grouse, secretary bird, 
or of several of the raptores; and some, of which I had collected 
the remains a long time ago, have not appeared since. 
All the bones of birds collected in the Miocene beds of Weis- 
senau, in the basin of Mayence, that I have been able to examine, 
kag a complete resemblance to those of the Department of the 
er. 
the Bourbonnais and the Auvergne: and although the greater part 
of the species belong to families at present existing in our fauna, 
hot one is known to be actually living, and several of them 
Re characters sufficient to constitute new gener 
re, : 
€ marine faluns of the Loire have only furnished me with a 
few species of birds. I have been able, however, to recognize a 
cormorant almost as large as that which now lives on our shores, 
