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In the former study, \citet{Ragan_2014} undertook a blind search (not restricted to latitudes where the mid-plane should lie) for long thin filaments in the first quadrant of the Milky Way, using near and mid-infrared images. In addition to confirming that Nessie lies along the Scutum arm, \citet{Ragan_2014} find seven GMFs, of which only one, GMF 20.0-17.9, is said to be associated with Galactic structure (declared a spur of the Scutum-Centaurus arm). Our strongest bone candidate, filament 5, is a subsection of GMF 20.0-17.9, but, unlike \citet{Ragan_2014}, we argue that filament 5 runs right down the spine of the Scutum-Centaurus arm in p-v space. We believe the discrepancy arises due to a difference in methodology. \citet{Ragan_2014} group neighboring IRDCs into a single filament, while we determine that there is a significant kink in velocity structure associated with a dramatic plane-of-the-sky bend at a longitude of $\approx 18.5^{\circ}$. Since grouping both IRDCs to make a longer structure violates our criterion 5, we only consider the kinematically coherent part of the filament (yellow boxed region in figure \ref{fig:Candid5_with_tilt}), which is remarkably parallel to the Scutum arm in p-v space. Likewise, in figure 6 from \citet{Ragan_2014} (analogous to our figure \ref{fig:skeleton}), they represent filaments as straight lines connecting velocities measured at the tips of the filaments, while we represent filaments as sets of points whose velocities are determined by the BGPS, HOPS, MALT90, and GRS surveys. Thus, a clear and consistent description of a bone is critical, and, in future studies, we plan to continue to apply the criteria like the ones listed above to achieve consistency.  Like \citet{Ragan_2014}, Wang et al. (2015) search for large-scale filaments and establish their relationship to Galactic structure after the fact. Rather than searching for filaments elongated along the Galactic plane, Wang et al. (2015) search for the longest, coldest, and densest filaments (aspect ratio >>10) in the Hi-GAL images, within the longitude range of $15^\circ < l < 56^\circ$. Of the nine filaments Wang et al. 2015 highlight as their most prominent, only one (the "snake", BC\_11.13-0.12) overlaps with our sample. The other eight Wang et al. (2015) filaments fail one or more of our bone criteria: G24, G26, and G47 are \ge \geq  39 pc above the physical galactic midplane.