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the Post-pliocene of New Jersey, is, from the 

 literature and notices on the subject, now 

 found to be but a synonym of the Meleagris 

 superba of Cope from the Pleistocene of 

 New Jersey. At the present writing I have 

 before me the type specimen of Meleagris 

 alius of Marsh, for which favor I am in- 

 debted to Dr. Charles Schuchert of the Pea- 

 body Museum of Yale University. My account 

 of it will be published in another connection 

 later on. 



Some years after Professor Marsh had de- 

 scribed this material as representing a species to 

 which I have just said he gave the specific name 

 of altus, it would appear that I did not fully 

 concur in the propriety of doing so, as will be 

 seen from a paper I published on the subject 



Conn., writes that "Type of Meleagris altus is in Peabody Museum with 

 other types of fossil Meleagris." At the present writing I am not in- 

 formed as to what these "other types" are; and I am of the opinion that 

 the museum referred to by Doctor Eaton has no fossil meleagrine material 

 that has not, up to date, been described. See also Amer. Nat., Vol. 

 IV, p. 317. 



Cope, E. D. "Synopsis of Extinct Batrachia, etc." Meleagris 

 superbus (Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, N. S. XIV, Pt. 1, 1870,239). A long 

 and careful description of M. superbus [superba] will be found here, 

 where the species is said to be " established on a nearly perfect right tibia, 

 an imperfect left one, a left femur with the condyles broken off, and a 

 right coracoid bone, with the distal articular extremity imperfect." 



