160 Life of a Fossil Hunter 



The only specimen which I found undisturbed in 

 the clay matrix was part of the skull of a hairy 

 mammoth, or Elephas primigenius. 



Dr. Shufeldt is the author of a valuable memoir 

 on the fossil birds of this region, " The Fossil Avi- 

 Fauna of the Equus Beds of the Oregon Desert," 

 published by the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. 

 He worked over the collection made by the late Pro- 

 fessor Condon of the Oregon State University, the 

 collection which Professor Cope made a few years 

 after mine, and mine. 



In these three collections, he finds five species of 

 grebes, and nine of gulls, of which two species are 

 new to science, Professor Condon being the dis- 

 coverer of one, while I found the other. Of cor- 

 morants, there are two species, one discovered by 

 Cope. One species, quite common among the fossil 

 remains, is now extinct There is a new swan also, 

 described by Professor Cope, who writes of it : 

 " This swan was discovered by ex-Governor Whit- 

 aker of Oregon [who discovered the Fossil Lake 

 locality] in the Pliocene formations of the state. 

 The same bird was afterwards procured by my as- 

 sistant, Charles H. Sternberg." Altogether there 

 are nineteen species of Anseres, i. e., geese, ducks, 

 swans, etc., of which two are new. 



One of my discoveries was a flamingo, which was 

 dedicated to Professor Cope under the title Phoeni- 



