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1856.]

This bird was given in Mr. Peak's volume on the Birds and Quadrupeds
Obs.
of Capt. Wilkes's Expedition, as Zapornia spilonota, Gould, but though very probably of the same genus, is distinct, and we have not found it described.

Tachypetes Palmerstoni, (Gmelin.)

Pelecanus Palmerstoni, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 573, (1788.)
This is a species quite distinct from T. aquila, and is apparently excluObs.
From that species the present bird
sively an inhabitants of the Pacific Ocean.
may readily be distinguished by its much larger gular pouch, which in the
Its quills and tail feathers are much narrower and
living bird is of a red color.
the latter is longer. So far as can be determined from preserved specimens, the
two species are nearly of the same size, thongh the present bird is the more
T.

slender.

Numerous specimens are in the collection of the Exploring Expedition,

(Vincennes and Peacock.)
Notices of Remains of Extinct Vertebrated Animals discovered by Professor E.

Emvions.

By Joseph

Leidt, M. D.

Cetacea.
1.

Orycterocetus cornctidens, Leidy.

0. quadratidens, Proc. A. N. S. VII, 378.

originally proposed 6n several long horn-like teeth, together
with fragments of jaws found in the miocene deposit of Virginia. Prof. Emmons has also discovered a tooth, apparently of the same species, in the miocene deposite of North Carolina. The tooth bears a wonderful resemblance to
the horn of a young ox. It is nearly 5 inches long in the curve and over an
inch in diameter at base, which is hollowed into a deep conical cavity, as in

The genus was

the spermaceti whale.

Sauria.
2.

Drepanodon impar, Leidy.

This species is founded on the crown of a tooth discovered

in the miocene deposit of Cape Fear, North Carolina.
The specimen, in form, bears a strong resemblance to the

Emmons

by Prof,

crown of the inhas only one trenchant ridge, and this is

enamel
is thin and smooth
the base of the
situated postero-internally. The
crown is hollowed conically. Length of specimen 10 lines; breadth at base
ferior canine tooth of a bear,

but

it

antero-posteriorly 7 lines, transversely 5 lines.

3.

Pliogonodon priscus, Leidy.

Founded on two much mutilated specimens, consisting of the crowns of teeth,

discovered by Professor Emmons in a miocene deposite of Cape Fear, in North
Carolina.

Teeth elongated conical, nearly straight or only slightly curved inwardly, in

section circular, with a pair of opposed carinaa on the inner side surfaces
divided into numerous narrow planes, with a few vertical interrui^ted plicae,
which are more numerous on the inner side, ^namel finely wrinkled and the
dentine concentric. Base of crown hollowed. Probable length of crown when
perfect 2 inches, breadth of base |- of an inch.
The teeth differ from those of 3fososaurus in their narrower proportion,
straightness, circular section, and plicae of the enamel from those of Polyptycliodon in the possession of divisional planes and opposed carinag
and from
those of Pleiosaurus in the former character and the circular section.
;

4.

Pal-5:osaurus ? (Compsosaurus) priscus, Leidy ante p. 165.

Half a dozen isolated teeth of this saurian are contained in the collection of

Prof.

Emmons.

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Omosaurus perplexus, Leidy.

enaliosaurian, based upon a number of teeth of varied character, vertebrae,
fragments of ribs and other bones, and the impression of a dermal pLxte, obtained
from the coal field of Chatham Co., North Carolina, by Prof. Emmons and also
by Prof. M. Tuomey.
5.

An

Teeth elongated conical, pointed, nearly straight, or n:ore or less moderately curved inwardly, with opposed carinte on the inner side, which
transverse section subcircular, flattened inare entire or denticulated
ternally surfaces even, or more or less distinctly fluted on the outer side or all
around, and covered with minute interrupted ridges, which are vertical on the
even surface, oblique on the fluted surface, and divergent downward in the viCrown solid, enamel thin, dentine concentric fang subcinity of the carinas.
Length from 5 lines to 1^ inches, breadth from
cylindrical, hollowed at base.
;

4| lines.
Palceosaw'us?
Bodies of the vertebrse bi-concave and much constricted, as
and Ch-jKysaunis. Length of one of the posterior cervical bodies 16 lines,
depth of its articular surfaces 17 lines, width 15 lines.
Dermal plate covered with radiating, bifurcating and anastomosing ridges.
Allied to Clepsysaurus and Centemodon, Lea, and probably identical with them.
2 lines to

Labyrinthodonta.

DicTYOCEPHALUS KLEGANS, Leidy.

Founded on the upper portion of a cranium discovered by Prof. Emmons in
the coal-field of Chatham Co., N. C. Plates of the cranium covered with retiParietals comparatively short,
cular ridges in a general radiant manner.
broader in front than behind parietal foramen near the centre of the bones.
Posterior outline of the cranium
Occipitals quadrate, a little longer than broad.
with a superficial transverse concavity on each side and not a deep sinus as in
Trematosaurus and Arcliegosmirus. Breadth of occipital outline 28 lines length
Probable
of parietals 8J- lines, breath anteriorly 3J lines, posteriorly 3 lines.
length of head, considering it to have had nearly the proportions of Tremato6.

saurus, 4 inches, breadth

2^-

inches.

Pisces.

IscHTRHiZA AXTiQUA, Leidy.

The genus was originally based on a tooth found in the Green Sand of New
Jersey. Two teeth aj^parently of a second speceis have been obtained by Prof.
Emmons on the Neuse River, N. C.
7.

Crown of the teeth, when perfect, apparently, laterally compressed conical.

Fang robust, quadrately pyramidal, curved with a rugged base which is bifurcated antero-posteriorly and more deeply before than behind. Pulp cavity en;

Probable length of specimens when entire IJ, and 2

tirely closed at bottom.
inches; length of fang 10 lines, and 1 inch breadth of crown at base anterobreath of fang at bottom anposteriorly 5 lines, 6 lines laterally 3| 1., 4|- 1.
1
7 1.
tero-posteriorly 7 1., 8^ 1.; laterally 6J
;

Notice of some Remains of Fishes discovered hy Dr. John E. Evans.

By Joseph
1.

Leidy, M. D.

Clupea humilis, Leidy.

Founded on an impression of the fish upon one half of a clay stone nodule
from a tertiary deposit of Green River, Missouri.
Length 3^- inches; greatest depth 16 lines. Dorsal fin with 15 rays; abdominal 7, anal 14; caudal 20? From the head to the position of the anus 28
abdominal spines may be counted.
'

Cladocyclus? occidentalis, Leidy.

Based on specimens of isolated scales, attached to masses of an ash-colored
chalk, from the cretaceous deposite of the upper Missouri.
2.