Fossil Birds in ihe Marsh Collection of Yale University 67 



This material is in very excellent condition and consists of twelve 

 (12) long bones or parts of long bones. Some are very nearly perfect, 

 others are less so. They are all of a uniform dark brown color and 

 have the appearance of great age. The follo\ving LIST gives addi- 

 tional information about them. 



LIST 



Spe imeits Length in centimeters 



{of perfect hones) 



3 Humeri (one perfect) (all from right limbs) 147 .0 



1 Radius (perfect) left limb 138 .0 



1 Ulna (perfect) left limb 155 .0 



1 Coracoid (almost perfect) left side 123 .0 (approx.) 



1 Scapula (left: in two pieces) 152 .0 (approx.) 



2 Femora (somewhat chipped. Rights) 150.0 



2 Tibio-tarsi (chipped) 



(1) (approx.) 244.5 



(2) (approx.) 183.0 



1 Tarso-metatarsus (right) broken in half 176.5 



MeLEAGRIS RICHMOND! sp. nOV. 



{Plate II, Fig. 19.) 



Holotype. Cat. No. 905, Peabody Museum, Yale University. Alameda Co., 

 California. Post-Pliocene. L. G. Yates, collector. 



Specimen accompanied by the following letter: 



CALIFORNIA STATE DENTAL ASSOCIATION, 



Secretary's Office. 

 / 



Centreville, Alameda Co., Cal., Feb. 14, 1876. 

 Prof. O. C. Marsh 



Dear Sir: I send herewith a bone which I found a few days since in the P. Plio- 

 cene ? near Mission San Jose where I have found Elephas, Mastodon Lama, etc., it 

 was imbedded in gravel about 30 feet below the surface. Please inform me what 

 it is and oblige 



Yours very truly 



[Signed] Lorenzo G. Yates. 



The specimen consists of the sternum of some gallinaceous bird 

 about the size of a male Centrocercus urophasianus. There are also a 

 few small fragments with it, which apparently have been broken olY 

 from the larger specimen. 



I have compared this fragment of a sternum with a large number of 

 gallinaceous fowls of a more or less similar size, including Argus, 

 Capercalzie, Centrocercus, etc.; but I am thoroughly con\'inced that it 



