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however, I have not done, as the skeletons of many of the existing 

 species mentioned are not now at hand; moreover, there should be 

 more of the material in order to make the determination certain and 

 of any value. 



In any event, it never came from the foot of a woodpecker {Picidce), 

 and the specimen should be set aside until such time as additional 

 material will throw a better light on the subject. 



BIRD {Fakoiiidce or Strigida). 



(Indetermined) . 



{Plate XV, Fig. 153, a and h.) 



Cat. No. 962, Peabody Museum, Yale University. Henry's Fork, Wyoming. 

 Eocene (Bridger). F. S. Wicks, collector. 



Two very nearly perfect ungual phalanges of pes (fossil), from an 

 adult indi\adual of some raptorial species; but whether an owl or a 

 hawk, it is hardly possible to say, and it will be as well to await the 

 discovery of additional material before attempting to pass upon it. 



BIRD (indetermined). 



{Plate XV, Fig. 130.) 



Cat. No. 959, Peabody Museum, Yale University. [Material mainly Wasatch 

 (L. Eocene) — not sure of this." Lull.] L. S. Davis, collector. 



Material consists of distal end of a fossil humerus of some mammal 

 the size of a muskrat. The bird fossil is the superior part of a left 

 coracoid, which belonged to a bird about the size of a Clapper Rail; 

 but it is too imperfect and fragmentary for reference. 



BIRD (indetermined). 



{Plate V, Fig. 29 c.) 



Cat. No. 863, Peabody Museum, Yale University. ISIillersviUe, Wyoming. 

 Eocene (Bridger). R. E. Son, collector. 



Distal portion of the right femur of some very large bird, which, 

 unfortunately, is much distorted through pressure. It belonged to a 

 bird fully of the dimensions of Olor paloregonus Cope, or of the Cali- 

 fornia Vulture {Gymnogyps calif ornianus). The external condyle is 

 deeply grooved for the head of the fibula; but that is the case in a great 

 many birds of all sizes. In my opinion, this fragment does not pre- 

 sent a sufficient number of characteristic characters to admit of its 

 being referred to any family of birds ^vith certainty. 



