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  THE 
  EXTINCT 
  BATRACHIA, 
  REPTILIA 
  

  

  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. 
  237). 
  

  

  TAL^EOTRINGA, 
  Marsh. 
  

  

  PAL^OTRINGA 
  LITTORALIS, 
  Marsh. 
  

   L. 
  c., 
  208. 
  

  

  Cretaceous 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  upper 
  Green 
  Sand. 
  

  

  PAL^EOTRTNGA 
  VETUS. 
  Marsh. 
  

   ' 
  L. 
  c, 
  209. 
  

  

  Cretaceous 
  New 
  Jersey, 
  ! 
  Lower 
  bed. 
  

  

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

   Scolopax 
  (Med. 
  and 
  Phys. 
  Res., 
  p. 
  280.") 
  Leidy, 
  1. 
  c. 
  

  

  TELMATORNIS, 
  Marsh. 
  

  

  TELMATORNIS 
  PRISCTTS, 
  Marsh. 
  

   Loc. 
  cit., 
  p. 
  210. 
  

  

  Cretaceous 
  New 
  Jersey 
  ; 
  upper 
  Green 
  Sand. 
  

  

  TELMATORNIS 
  AFFINIS, 
  Marsh. 
  

   L. 
  c, 
  211. 
  

  

  Cretaceous 
  New 
  Jersey 
  ; 
  upper 
  Green 
  Sand. 
  

  

  GALLIXIE. 
  

  

  MELEAGRIS, 
  Linn. 
  

  

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

   New 
  Jersey. 
  The 
  portions 
  which 
  furnish 
  its 
  characters 
  are 
  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 
  

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

   ing 
  in 
  the 
  typical 
  Gallinae, 
  but 
  characterize 
  the 
  Meleagridae 
  and 
  Southern 
  Hemisphere 
  

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

  

  