6 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 02 



All of these bones were found in the mass of partly disintegrated 

 owl pellets. Many of them have the appearance of such freshness that 

 it is easy to believe that they were dropped by the owls within a period 

 not greater than a year or two before the time of Mr. Krieger's work. 

 One of the femurs, for instance, retains a patch of dried tissue on the 

 anterior basal portion of the greater trochanter and a loose web of 

 hairs in the digital fossa and concave inner aspect of the greater 

 trochanter. The braincase (pi. 2, fig. 3) is packed full of hair by the 

 action of the owl's stomach, and the broken anterior part of a skull 

 (pi. 2, fig. 3a) gives similar evidence of recent submission to digestive 

 action. Most of the jaws have hairs adhering to the teeth or in the 

 spaces between the roots. One has a felt-like mass plastered against 

 the inner side of the ascending ramus. 



As regards specific characters this material appears to be in per- 

 fect accord with the original material from St. Michel. Haiti. 



NESOPHONTES HYPOMICRUS Miller 



Imperfect rostra, 2 ; mandibles, 14 ; humerus, i ; femora, 3 ; tibiae, 4. 



In one of the imperfect rostra the antorbital canal is packed with 

 hair and there are tufts of hair in the spaces between the teeth. Most 

 of the jaws have hairs adhering to the teeth. 



NESOPHONTES ZAMICRITS Miller 



A mandible, an ulna and a tibia represent this species. All three 

 bones have traces of hair and other organic matter adhering to their 

 surfaces. The mandible measures: total length, about 13 mm. ; depth 

 through coronoid process, 4.0; distance from articular process to 

 anterior border of first molar, 8.4 ; combined four molarif orm teeth 

 (alveoli), 5.2. 



PHYLLOPS HAITIENSIS (J. A. Allen) 

 Broken skull of one individual and mandible of another. 



EPTESICUS HISPANIOL^ Miller 



Broken skull and nearly perfect jaw, both apparently parts of 

 one animal. The scarcity of bat remains is a peculiar feature of this 

 owl deposit. 



BROTOMYS VORATUS Miller 



A mandible and femur. The femur is smeared with hair and half 

 digested organic material. Its digital fossa and concave inner surface 



