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copterus copei. Dr. Shufeldt says : " It is a fact of 

 no little interest that a flamingo inhabited the lakes 

 of the Silver Lake region of Oregon during the 

 Pliocene Epoch." The collections include a heron 

 and a couple of coots also. Among the fowl are 

 four grouse, discovered by Cope, and an entirely 

 new genus and species which I had the honor of 

 finding. Of eagles, there are two species. There 

 are also a great horned owl, a blackbird, and a 

 raven. 



Among the other fossil remains taken from this 

 region are six genera of fish, a majority of them 

 new, and fifteen species of fossil mammalia, includ- 

 ing two llamas, three horses, an elephant, a dog, an 

 otter, a beaver, a mouse, a great sloth, Mylodon, as 

 large as a grizzly bear, and other forms. 



"Thomas Condon," writes Dr. Shufeldt in his 

 memoir, " was the first scientific man to visit the 

 Fossil Lake region, with the results already stated. 

 Cope and his assistant Charles Sternberg came later, 

 and gathered many hundred bones and bone frag- 

 ments." And in the preface to his " Tertiary Verte- 

 brata," Vol. Ill, page xxvii, Professor Cope 

 writes: " The Tertiary formations explored in 1878 

 were the John Day, Loup Fork, and Equus beds. 

 These were examined by Charles H. Sternberg 

 both in Washington and Oregon; in the former near 

 to Fort Walla Walla, and in the latter, in the desert 



