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few other naturalists, had brought this val- 

 uable material together. By far the greater 

 part of this consisted of the fossil bones of 

 birds, the mammals and fish having been 

 described by Professor Cope in The American 

 Naturalist and elsewhere. 



The results of my share of the work have 

 long since passed into the literature of the 

 subject; and, as these are fully set forth in 

 my academy memoir, they need not be espe- 

 cially reviewed in this place. It may only be 

 noted that I announced, for the first time, the 

 discovery of a long list of birds, based on the 

 fossils referred to, the majority of which co- 

 incided with species and genera of existing 

 forms, while a somewhat formidable array 

 were extinct and new to science. 



At the time my examination was made, the 

 skeletons of existing birds at my command 

 were entirely inadequate for the purposes of 

 making reliable diagnoses and references. 

 During the past twenty years, however, such 

 material has been vastly increased in our mu- 

 seums, especially in the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum, and for the use of this in the present 

 connection I am much indebted. 



Several years ago, what may be collectively 

 designated as the Cope collection from the 

 aforesaid region was purchased by the Amer- 

 ican Museum of Natural History in New 

 York City for its paleontological department; 

 and only a few months ago Dr. W. D. Mat- 

 thew, the curator of that department, shipped 

 me to Washington the entire collection for 

 the purpose of a complete revision. This task 

 is now practically completed, and the object 

 of the present article is simply to publish an 

 advance abstract as an announcement of the 

 additional birds of the region in question, the 

 fossil remains of which I have found to exist 

 in the aforesaid collection, and a small collec- 

 tion from the same localities (Silver and Fos- 

 sil lakes), which belongs to the U. S. National 

 Museum. The new species will be fully de- 

 scribed in the forthcoming contribution on 

 the subject, accompanying which will be found 

 upwards of 600 figures illustrating the entire 

 avifauna of the Pleistocene of Oregon, in so 

 far as their fossil remains are concerned. 



The list is as follows, each species in it, with 

 one exception, being announced for the first 

 time: 



1. Colyvibus parvus (extinct). U. 



2. Fodilymhus magnus (extinct). ^^ 



3. Centrocercus urophasianus. 



4. Mergus americanus? 



5. Mergus serrator. 



6. Mergus sp. ? 



7. Marila americana? 



8. Marila valisineria. 



9. Marila marila. 

 10. Marila afflnis? 

 n. Marila collaris? 



12. Charitonetta albeola. 



13. Si^trionicus histrionicus. 



14. Polysticia stelleri. 



15. Erismatura jamaicensis. 



16. Br ant a c. hutcMnsi? 



17. Branta c. minima? 

 18 Branta hernicla. 



19. Olor columbianns. 



20. Olor tiuccinator. 



21. Olor matthewi (extinct). ^V 



22. Ardea herodias. 



23. Botaurus lentiginosus. 



24. Aquila chrysaetos. 



25. Haliveetus leucocepJialus. 



Erismatura jamaicensis has been previously 

 announced by Mr. L. H. Miller in the Bulletin 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Cali- 

 fornia. The three new extinct birds found, 

 and the descriptions of them, will appear when 

 the memoir is published. 



E. W. Shufeldt 



November 18, 1912 



FBOCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 SOCIETY OF AMERICA 

 The seventh annual meeting of the Entomolog- 

 ical Society of America was held at Cleveland, 

 Ohio, December 31 and January 1, in the audi- 

 torium of the Normal School. The meetings were 

 all well attended and enthusiastic. The following 

 papers were presented: 



C. Betten, Lake Forest University: An Inter- 

 esting Feature in the Venation of Selieopsyche, 

 the Molannidw and the Leptooeridw. 

 In the trichopterous genus Selieopsyche radius 

 of the fore wing is found in primitive condition, 

 i. e., -El is simple and the sector is dichotomously 

 branched. The homology is but slightly obscured 



