GALLINULOIDES WYOMINGENSIS EASTMAN 



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Fig. 2. — Skeleton restoration of the fossil bird Gallinuloides wyomingensis East- 

 man. Made and drawn by the author, guided by the fossil specimen belonging to the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University, kindly loaned him for the 

 purpose. For amount of reduction compare with measurements given in the table 

 above. In some of the bones their actual morphology is closely given. The outline 

 of the skull agrees with the specimen. The cervical vertebrae as drawn are intended 

 to number some fourteen or fifteen. In drawing the pelvis, assistance was given 

 through study of the general tetraonine form of that bone. The free caudal vertebrae 

 and pygostyle are as they occur in related gallinaceous birds. In the case of the ribs, 

 they are in part as in the specimen, while the sternum and bones of the shoulder are 

 entirely so, and agree, in all particulars, with those bones in the specimen of Galli- 

 nuloides here considered. With respect to the skeleton of the pectoral and pelvic 

 limbs, the bones have the general outhne of the corresponding ones, in any particular 

 instance, in the original, and the proportionate lengths are actual. 



In making this drawing, I intentionally omitted to include the limbs of the right 

 side, as nothing would be gained by showing them, and they would needlessly com- 

 plicate the figure. Measurements of the long bones and others are given in the text; 

 and from these measurements, taken in connection with this drawing and other data 

 presented, a very complete conception of the morphology of the skeleton in this fossil 

 bird may be obtained. 



