384 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



68 toe-joints (adults), mostly quite perfect; belonging to different 

 species in the collection. Not assorted or referred. 



Miscellaneous Lots. 



I was personally informed by Mr. Edward McGall and Mr. Anthony 

 Tall that in other lots of the collections sent to Harvard College, 

 British Museum, etc., were found specimens of an os furcula of a 

 bird of very small size. This report is sustained by the present col- 

 lection, for in one or two of the miscellaneous lots I find various 

 bones that belonged to some very small species; in fact, as small as 

 any bird in our present American avifauna, barring the humming 

 birds. These bones are as follows : 



In one lot: 



Left femur (distal condyle gone). 



Right tarso-metatarsus, distal moiety (adult) measures 1.5 mm. 



across the ends of the trochlese. 

 Left femur, distal moiety. Transverse diameter of condyles 



2 mm. 

 Shaft of a tibio-tarsus, extremities missing. 



In another lot of: 



Numerous bones of birds described in the memoir occur also 

 the distal moiety of a femur that belonged to a very small 

 species of bird; also a perfect left femur (same species?), 

 which measures 1.6 cms. in length; a rib; the distal portion of 

 a left tarso-metatarsus, and a nearly perfect left humerus; 

 length 1.5 cms. The bones in this lot were mixed up in a con- 

 siderable quantity of fine, dry silt from the bottom of the cave. 

 Some minute species of mollusks (2 sp.). with a form like a 

 helix, were also found in this lot. 



In still another lot : 



Made up of various calcined bones of species described in the 

 memoir (fragmentary), there occurs a nearly perfect right 

 tibio-tarsus of a bird, with a total length of 3.1 cms. Appar- 

 ently the bone is of a passerine type and belonged to a species 

 about the size of a large sparrow. 



After all the bones enumerated above had been carefully selected 



