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29. Tinnunculus sparverins (L.). 

 Exceediugly abundant. 

 Xo. 2. February 19. 



^o. 100. 9 ad. March 19. 



30. Cliamaepelia passerina (L.). 

 Common ; iris orange. 



Xo. 85. $ ad. March 14. 

 No. 115. March 20. 



31. Engyptila verreauxi (Bp.). 

 Common ; iris yellow ; legs red. 

 No. 114. 9 ad. March 19. 



32. Geotrygon costariceusis Lawr. 

 Presented by Dr. Van Patten, of San Jose. 

 No. 135. March 25. 



33. Butorides virescens (L.). 



One specimen. Said to be common. 

 No. 100. Guv. March, 15. 



In closing this list, justice requires an acknowledgment of the 

 efficient aid of Sr. Don Jose Zeledon, who left nothing nndene in the 

 way of cheerful and painstaking assistance and genuine hospitality. 

 Indeed, whatever of success has attended my trip to Costa Rica is due 

 largely to his thoughtful generosity. 



C. N. 



BRIEF DKSCKIPTIOIVS OF FOS.«IIi PLANTS, IHIEFI.V TERTIAKY, 

 FROITI WESTERN IVOKTia AMEKIC'A. 



BY J. S. ]\EWBERRY. 



The following brief characterizatious of fossil plants from the West 

 are supplementary to the descriptions issued in the " Notes on Our Later 

 Extinct Floras", published in the Annals of the Lyceum of Natural His- 

 tory of New York, 1808. Fuller descriptions, with figures of all the 

 species enumerated in both series, with others yet to be added, will 

 soon appear in a volume which is to form one of the Eeports of the 

 United States Geological Survey. ]\Iost of the fossil plants here enu- 

 merated were collected by Dr. F. Y. Hayden, but a large number have 

 also been obtained by I'rof. Thos. Condon, State geologist of Oregon, by 

 Prof. J.J. Stevenson and his assistant, Mr. I. C. Russell, "and by others 

 whose names are indicated in connection with their contributions. 



Most of the originals of these descriptions will be placed in the Na- 

 tional Museum and the annotated catalogue now issued finds an appro- 

 priate place in the Proceedings of the IMnseum. 



J. S. NEWBERRY. 



Columbia College, New Y^ork, 



August 15, 1882. 



