(Abstract.)

This skeleton was found in the bed of an old creek, near the Water of Leith, and to all appearances must have been there at a period prior to the formation of this settlement, as the ground has been in the author's possession for upwards of nine years, and has never been disturbed.

As set up, it stands 36 in. high; full length of body from neck vertebra to tip of caudal vertebra 17 in.; caudal 3 in.; neck 33 in.; head and bill 5½ in.; wings, humerus, 10 in.; ulna 9⅜ in.; metacarpus 4⅝ in.; os magnum, or phalanx, 2 in.; thumb 1½ in.; femur 3¾ in.; tibia 7¼ in.; tarsus 4¼ in.; centre toe 5½ in.; number of vertebræ from sacrum to cranium 30; caudal 8.