40 R. W. Shufeldt 



Falco falconellai sp. nov. 



{Plate XV, Figs. 139-143.) 



Holotype. Cat. No. 863, Peabody Museum, Yale University. Wyoming (Dry 

 Creek?). Eocene (Bridger). LaMothe and Chew, collectors. 



Consists of five (5) fossil bones or fragments of bones which, in hfe, 

 evidently belonged to either a small Owl or a small Falcon or Hawk. I 

 have compared it in all particulars with the corresponding bones or 

 parts of bones in skeletons of Cryptoglaux, Athene, and the pygmy Owls, 

 also in many of the smaller Falcons and Hawks, and I am convinced, 

 on account of the form of the ungual phalanx and the upper extremity 

 of the (left) coracoid which are here represented, that the bird was a 

 small representative of the Falconidce. 



In addition to what has just been named as belonging to this lot, 

 there is the distal part of the left humerus, the radial and ulnar 

 tubercles of which are distinctly falconine, as is also the pedal phalanx 

 belonging to the same individual. The remaining fragment is a 

 condyle of one of the long bones, but broken in such a way as to render 

 it difi&cult to say which one. It is interesting to find a falconine bird 

 of this size in the Oligocene. 



Gallinuloides wyomingensis Eastman. 



Eastman, Geol. Mag., Feb. 1900, 54. 



Cat. No. 961, Peabody Museum, Yale University. Henry's Fork, Wyoming. 

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



Material consists of distal end of a fossil right tarso-metatarsus 

 and the proximal moiety of a pedal phalange (mid-anterior toe?). 



The characters of this specimen seem to point with great certainty 

 to some form of extinct bird which possessed a skeleton having both 

 ralline and galline characters in it. And inasmuch as it was found in 

 the Eocene (Bridger) of Wyoming, and belonged to a bird about the 

 size of Gallinuloides wyomingensis of Eastman, I propose to refer it to 

 that form for the present until further material comes to light. 



I have examined Dr. Eastman's plate and read his description of Gal- 

 linuloides in the Geological Magazine, and on some futiu"e occasion this 

 specimen should be compared with the original of G. wyomingensis. 



The fossil here being described has one very striking character: the 

 presence on the mesial aspect of the inner trochlear process of a 

 circular and quite conspicuous concavity, with a well defined bounding 



^ Gen. name = Lat. falco, a falcon. Sp. name = Latin for the diminutive of 

 Jalco, i. e. a little or small falcon. 



