F. B. Loomis — Fossil Bird from the Wasatch. 481 



Art. XL. — A Fossil Bird from the Wasatch ; by F. B. 



Loomis. 



So far as trie writer is aware, no bird has ever been described 

 from the Wasatch Lake basin ; so that any part of one from 

 this lower portion of the Eocene becomes a matter of import- 

 ance, especially if the remains are those of a land bird. When 

 unpacking the collections of the Amherst College expedition 

 of 1904, a number of bones iu a better state of preservation 

 than the rest were sorted out of a lot collected for Eohippus. 

 These proved to be the fragmentary upper end of the femur, 

 the upper end of the tibia and fibula, the distal end of the 



Fig. 1. Gallinuloides prentici. Distal end of the tibio-tarsus, front 

 aspect ; nat. size ; co-type. 



Fig. 2. Gallinuloides prentici. Outline of the left foot, with those pha- 

 langes found shaded in ; % nat. size ; type. 



Fig. 3. Gallinuloides prentici. Claw of digit 4 ; articular face and side 

 view ; nat. size. 



tibio-tarsus, eight more or less complete phalanges, and four 

 claws, all belonging to the left leg of a bird ; this bird was 

 about half as big again as a turkey and of rather heavier build. 

 Beside these a second specimen, consisting of the distal end of 

 the left tibio-tarsus was found in the same layer about 100 



