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bits Central and Soutliern India and Cej-lon. In the Indian Museum there 

 are numerous remains of Emyda from the Siwaliks of the Punjab, Burma, 

 and Perim Island, which may or may not belong to the last-named species. 



General Bemarhs. — The foregoing notes will show tliat the fossil 

 reptiles of India are noticeable for the extreme paucity of species known, 

 and for the fragmentary remains of the known species. The Mesozoic 

 Reptilia belong, as far as described, to extinct genera: the one known Eocene 

 reptile {Ilijdraspis) belongs to a living genus, but one which is now far 

 removed from India. The Siwalik (Mio-Pliocene) reptiles appear in great 

 part to belong to living Indian genera, and in many cases to living species ; 

 the modern representatives are, however, in most cases, found no longer in 

 the Sub-Himalayan disticts, but are now confined to Southern India. The 

 Narbada fossil reptiles, in all i^robability, belong altogether to living 

 species, and probably to sj^ecies inhabiting the same district. 



Fossil Birds. 



Mio-Fliocene. — Fossil remains of birds have hitherto been found in 

 India only in the Sub-Himalayan Siwaliks, and there only in comparative- 

 ly small numbers. Some of their remains are in the Indian Museum, and 

 have been j^artly described by myself,* while others are in the British 

 Museum, and have been lately described by Mr. Davies.f Among the 

 carinate birds, a tarso-metatarsus is considered by Mr. Davies to belong to 

 a cormorant, possibly of the genus Graculus-X A species of pelican (Pele- 

 canus cautleyi) is indicated by a fragment of an ulna ; this bird, according 

 to Mr. Davies, must have been somewhat smaller than the living Indian P. 

 miiratus. Another part of an ulna has been referred to a new species 

 (Pelecanus sivalensis) by Mr. Davies, with a reservation as to the generic 

 determination. A gigantic wader has been described by myself, under the 

 name of Megaloscelornis sivalensis, from the evidence of a sternum and tibio- 

 tarsus. A distal extremity of a large bird humerus in the Indian Museum, 

 collected by Mr. Fedden in Sind, has a diameter of 2 inches across the 

 condyles : I cannot at present identify this bone with the humerus of 

 any living genus of bird : from its size it might belong to Mega- 

 loscelornis ; it makes some approach to the humerus of Ploteus. A 

 species of adjutant has been named by Milne-Edwards Argala falconer i.§ 



* R. G. S. I. Vol. XII, p. 52. 



t Geol. Mag. January 1880, p. 18. 



1 This lione was doubtfully referred by M. Edwards to Fhaeton. 

 § The hone in the British Museum referred to hy myself on page 56 of the above 

 quoted paper belong.s to this species. 



