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belonged to a species of turkey considerably smaller than the existing 

 Meleagris gallopavo. 



I have compared it with the sterna of a great many turkeys, includ- 

 ing .a series of prehistoric ones from the burial mound adjoining the 

 ruin of Puye, New Mexico. These were collected by Mr. F. W. 

 Hodge for the Bureau of Ethnology, and are now in the Collection 

 of the Di\dsion of Birds of the United States National Museura. 

 This material I have described in another connection (Ost. of Agrio- 

 charis ocellata, in MS. Apr. 29, 1914). See footnote, p. 66. (antea). 



They show many variations and sizes (for sex and age), but all have 

 the typical meleagrine characters, and no one of the series is in any 

 way as small as this fossil sternum found by Dr. Yates. Moreover, 

 California is not now the range for a Meleagris, and they have long 

 ago become extinct there. 



This species was not more than half the size of the existing wild 

 turkey (M. g. merriami). 



Therefore I propose for it the name of Meleagris richmondi, naming 

 it for Dr. Charles Wallace Richmond, Assistant Curator of Birds of 

 the United States National Museum, in recognition of his work' in 

 ornithology, and especially his more recent labors in the bibliography 

 of that science. 



Phalacrocorax idahensis (Marsh). 



(Plate VI, Fig. 44.) 



Graculaviis idahensis Marsh, Amer. Joum. Sci., ser. 2, XLIX, 1870, 216. 

 Holotype. Cat. No. 527, Peabody Museum, Yale University. Castle Creek, 

 Idaho. Pleistocene. 



In the publication and place above cited, Professor Marsh has fully 

 described this material, which consists of the proximal half of a left 

 carpo-metacarpus of a bird (fossil: extinct), in a perfect condition as 

 far as it goes. It is of a deep gamboge color, partially overlaid with 

 whitish in some places, especially on the palmar aspect of the bone. 



I have carefully compared this carpo-metacarpus with the corre- 

 sponding bone as found in the skeletons of wdngs of our American 

 species, and I am of the opinion that as a distinct species it is no longer 

 in existence. 



This form was sHghtly smaller than Phalacrocorax perspicillatus 

 (Pall.) (extinct), and e\ddently more nearly affined to it than to any 

 of the present existing species. It should be known as Phalacrocorax 

 idahensis, and I see no reason for changing it to P. idahoensis (Sharpe's 

 Hand-List of Birds, Vol. 1, p. 235), or for relegating it to Pallasicarbo, 



