50 R. W. Shufeldt 



Minerva antiqua ? 



Cat. No. 876, Peabody Museum, Yale University. Cattail Spring, Wyoming. 

 Eocene (Bridger). LaMothe and Chew, collectors. 



Two fossil ungual phalanges which may, and probably did, belong 

 to an individual of this extinct owl; but they are a little too imperfect 

 for the purpose of identification. 



Pal.eophasianus meleagroides Shufeldt. 

 {Plate II, Fig. 20.) 



Shufeldt, Bull, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXII, 1913, Art. XVI, 291-293, PI. 

 LVIII, Figs. 81-84, 86-88. 



Cat. No. 896, Peabody Museum, Yale University. Henry's Fork, Wyoming. 

 Eocene (Bridger). J. W. Chew, collector. 



This is the second example of this extinct pheasant which has come 

 to hand for description. It is a very interesting specimen, and is far 

 more perfect than the type specimen, as originally described. It 

 consists of the distal end of the right tarso-metatarsus of an adult 

 individual. The inner trochlea is broken off, and the remaining two 

 are not entirely perfect. 



This specimen might be mistaken for the corresponding part of the 

 tarso-metatarsus of a Crane (Grus), but the characters attaching to 

 the foramen for the anterior tibial artery; the narrower intervals 

 between the trochlese, and some minor points, all seem to point toward 

 the gallinaceous rather than the paludicoline character of the bone. 



UiNTORNis LUCARis Marsh. 



(Plate VI, Fig. 42.) 



Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, IV, 1872, 259. 



Holotype. Cat. No. 617, Peabody Museum, Yale University. Henr>^'s Fork, 

 Wyoming. Eocene (Bridger). O. C. Marsh, collector. 



We have, representing this genus and species of Marsh, the distal 

 portion of the right tarso-metatarsus (fossil) of some small bird the 

 size of a Blue Jay {Cyanocitta cristata), and with it occurs six (6) other 

 granules of fossilized bone, which it is claimed belonged to the skeletons 

 of different individuals (Fig. 42). 



Professor Marsh, in describing this specimen, says that he found it 

 to be "A small bird evidently belonging to the Scansores, and prob- 

 ably related to the Woodpeckers, is represented by the distal end of 

 a tarso-metatarsal in perfect condition, and by some other fragmentar\- 

 remains of different individuals. These specimens indicate a bird 



