A difficulty in the bird-catching theory, namely, that the teeth are not as sharp as one would expect to find them in a flesh-eater, is somewhat offset by the similarity of the teeth to those of the bird-eating monitor lizards (_Varanus_), which are not especially sharp.
_The Great Yield of the Quarry._ Our explorations in the quarry began in the spring of 1898, and have continued ever since during favorable weather.

The total area explored at the close of the sixth year was seven thousand two hundred and fifty square feet.

Not one of the twelve-foot squares into which the quarry was plotted lacked its covering of bones, and in some cases the bones were two or three deep.
Each year we have expected to come to the end of this great deposit, but it still yields a large return, although we have reason to believe that we have exhausted the richest portions.
We have taken up four hundred and eighty-three parts of animals, some of which may belong to the same individuals.

These were packed in two hundred and seventy-five boxes, representing a gross weight of nearly one hundred thousand pounds.

Reckoning from the number of thigh-bones, we reach, as a rough estimate of the total, seventy-three animals of the following kinds: giant herbivorous dinosaurs, 44; plated herbivorous dinosaurs, or stegosaurs, 3; iguanodonts or smaller herbivorous dinosaurs, 4; large carnivorous dinosaurs, 6; small carnivorous dinosaurs, 3; crocodiles, 4; turtles, 5.