48 R. W. Shufeldt 



Cat. No. 1026 (PL XV, Fig. 148), Peabody Museum, Yale University. Sage 

 Creek, Wyoming. Eocene (Bridger). Chew and Smith, collectors. 



This hallucial fossil claw of Minerva antiqua is slightly above the 

 average size, and may have belonged to a female individual of this 

 species. It is nearly perfect, much worn, and has fossilized black 

 like the majority of bird fossils from Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Cat. Nos. 858, 859, Peabody Museum, Yale University. Henry's Fork, Wyo- 

 ming. Eocene (Bridger). L. LaMothe, collector. 



Imperfect fossil claw of hallux of Minerva antiqua; the process and 

 apex broken off and lost. This claw, or what there is of it, agrees 

 exactly in all particulars with the one figured in Plate XV, Figure 149. 

 No. 859. Three pieces of fossil bones (bird? indeterminable). 



Cat. No. 886, Peabody Museum, Yale University. Sage Creek, Wyoming. 

 Eocene (Bridger). Chew and Smith, collectors. 



Four fossil fragments of bones, one of which is a basal phalanx of 

 the second pedal digit of Minerva antiqua from the right foot, which 

 agrees, both in this respect and all others, with the specimen shown in 

 Figure 132 of Plate XV (Adult.) 



There are two other fragments of fossil bones in this lot that can 

 not be determined. There is also the superior extremity of a small 

 coracoid (left side) from a bird about the size of a Blue bird {Sialia). 

 It is imperfect and too fragmentary for accurate determination. All 

 the bones in this lot are of a coal black color. 



Cat. No. 869, Peabody Museum, Yale University. Dry Creek, Wj'oming. 

 Eocene (Bridger). LaMothe and Chew, collectors. 



Fossil osseous ungual phalanx from the outer or fourth pedal digit 

 of a specimen of Minerva antiqua (adult). It is somewhat more per- 

 fect, and otherwise agrees with the one shown in Figure 154/. There 

 is also with this lot the distal end of another pedal phalanx, but it is 

 not the one that in life articulated with this claw, though it appears to 

 have belonged to a specimen of Minerva antiqua. Finally, with this 

 lot we find an osseous fossil claw, which came from the foot of some 

 Grouse or other, and which can not be determined with anything like 

 accuracy. 



Cat. No. 871, Peabody Museum, Yale Universit3^ Dry Creek, Wyoming. 

 Eocene (Bridger). LaMothe and Chew, collectors. 



Basal phalanx of second toe of left foot of Minerva antiqua (adult, 

 fossil, perfect), which agrees with the one figured on Plate XV, Figure 



