﻿AND 
  AVES 
  OF 
  NORTH 
  AMERICA. 
  237 
  

  

  This 
  gannett 
  was 
  somewhat 
  smaller 
  than 
  the 
  S. 
  bassana 
  of 
  our 
  northern 
  coasts, 
  and 
  appi-oached 
  more 
  nearly 
  

   those 
  of 
  the 
  tropical 
  seas. 
  

  

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

  

  GRACULTJS. 
  

  

  GRACULUS 
  IDAHENSIS, 
  Marsh 
  

  

  Sillim. 
  Am. 
  Journ. 
  Sci. 
  Arts, 
  1870, 
  216. 
  

  

  Fresh 
  Water 
  Pliocene, 
  Castle 
  Creek, 
  Idaho. 
  

  

  PYGOPODES. 
  

  

  CATARRHACTES, 
  Briss. 
  

   CATARRHACTES 
  ANTIQUUS, 
  Marsh. 
  

  

  Sill. 
  Amer. 
  Journ. 
  Sci. 
  Arts, 
  1870, 
  213. 
  

  

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

   combe 
  Co., 
  N. 
  C, 
  presented 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Booth. 
  Leidy, 
  Pr. 
  A. 
  N. 
  Sci., 
  Phila., 
  1866, 
  237, 
  ??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 
  Catarrhactes. 
  Postpliocene. 
  

  

  L4MELLIROSTRES. 
  

  

  LAORNIS, 
  Marsh. 
  

   LAORNIS 
  EDWARDSIANTJS, 
  Marsh. 
  

   Sill. 
  Amer. 
  Journ. 
  Sci. 
  Arts, 
  1870, 
  206. 
  

  

  Middle 
  Green 
  Sand 
  bed, 
  Upper 
  Cretaceous 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  

  

  LOIVGIPENNES. 
  

  

  PUEFLNUS, 
  Leach. 
  

  

  PUFFINUS 
  CONRADI, 
  Marsh. 
  

  

  Bill. 
  Am. 
  Journ. 
  Sci. 
  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 
  

   Curlew." 
  Leidy, 
  1. 
  c. 
  

  

  GRALLAE. 
  

  

  GRUS, 
  Linn. 
  

  

  GRUS 
  HAYDENI, 
  Marsh, 
  

   hoc. 
  cit. 
  1870, 
  214. 
  

  

  "The 
  lower 
  end 
  of 
  a 
  left 
  tibia, 
  from 
  the 
  Pliocene 
  Niobrara 
  Rivei 
  - 
  , 
  of 
  Nebraska, 
  discovered 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Haydcn, 
  in 
  

  

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

  

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