Jávorka Sándor - Soós Lajos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 29. (Budapest 1935)

Fejérváry, G. J.: Further contributions to a monograph of the Megalanidae and fossil Varanidae - with notes on recent Varanians

published in 1918; in 1921, however, I obtained, through the kindness of Mr. C. ANDERSON, of the Sydney Museum, a reprint of this publication, for which I beg him, in this place too, to accept my heartfelt thanks. And now let me make pass in review those publications on Varanians, which enter the confines of our present consideration as outlined above. In 1919 Mr. R. STERNFELD published a paper „Neue Schlangen u, Echsen aus Zentralaustralien'

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, which appeared in the MitteiL Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges., 1, Frankfurt a/M., p. 76—83, and in which, on p. 78, a new form of V. acanthurus BLGR. is described under the name of brachyurus. In 1921 Mr. A. WETMORE published his note on „-j- xViinerva sau^ rodosis Wetm., a Fossil Owl from the Bridger Eocene", in: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelphia, 73, p. 455—458, Figs. 1—2. In this paper the author refers the humerus described and figured by LEIDY

0 as that of Saniroa maior, to a fossil species of Owl, fully justifying thus the correctness of my opinion concerned, emitted by me in my 1918 Monograph, p. 421, according to which „The humerus described (p. 182) and figured (Pl. XV, Fig. 14) by LEIDY as belonging to S. maior is undoubtedly not reptilian and therefore cannot belong to Saniva." On p. 363, op. cit., I even pointed out that „The humerus" "presents a particularly bird-like appearance, as LEIDY himself very judicially remarks." In 1922 Mr. CH. W. GILMORE offered „A New Description of Saniwa ensidens Leidy, an Extinct Varanid Lizard form,

Wyoming"« m: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 60, Washington, Art. 23 (No. 2413), Figs, 1—22, Pis. 1—3. The results contained in this excellent paper of the famous American Reptile paleontologist will be duly considered in the Chapter

7 dealing with Sanima and Tinosaurus (=Thinosaurus), In 1923, Baron NOPCSA'S

8 recent investigations threw some fresh light on the systematical position of a fossil form yet dealt with in my Monograph. By this fossil form I mean PORTIS'S Progonosau* rus pertinax, a „reptile represented by four fragmentary vertebrae" 6 Contr. to the extinct Vertebrate Fauna of Western Territ., HAYDEN'S Re* port U. S. Geol. Survey of the Territories, I, Pt. I, Washington, 1873. 7 Discussion of the family, and genetic relationships of the genus Saniva, p. 23. 8 Die Familien der Reptilien (Fortschritte der Geol.-Pal. Heft 2). 1925.