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bone of the five that might offer characters to indicate relationship, 

 but this is so crushed and broken that I have not been able to estab- 

 lish the family, or even the order, to which it belongs. The only 

 pertinent character evident is that of reduction in the radial condyle, 

 which has the articulating surface cut away. There is little else that 

 may be said about it, except to indicate that it is not from a species 

 of the order Falconiformes. With considerable reluctance I am 

 forced to the conclusion that it is necessary to relegate Falco fal- 

 conellus Shufeldt to the limbo of those species that may not be given 

 a place in ovir systematic classification. 



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