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The other characters Professor Marsh enumerates may each and all be 
due to sexual and individual variations. 
In the case of Meleagris celer this likewise holds true, and in regard 
to the statement that the “ remains preserved indicate a bird about half 
bulk of M. altus,’ may be said with equal truth of M. gallopavo, in 
which species a similar discrepancy in size also exists between the sexes 
and between old and young. 
In other words I am of the opinion, so far as I am able to judge from 
his descriptions, than when Professor Marsh described his three extinct 
and new species of Meleagris, he had nothing more or less before him 
than the very meagre and fragmentary remains of M. gallopavo. 
Columbide : Ectopistes migratorius.—The Passenger Pigeon is repre- 
sented in the collection by subfossil bones from several adult individ- 
uals, viz. :— 
Two left humeri (nearly perfect). 
Four fragments of humeri. 
One left carpo-metacarpi T 
Three carpo-metacarpi (imperfec 
Several coracoids (worn, and so aini. 
One pelvic sacrum. 
One left femur (perfect). 
The several bones differ in no way with the corresponding bones as 
they occur in adult specimens of Ectopistes as they exist at the present 
times. 
STRIGEs. 
Megascops asio.—The Screech Owl is represented by a single speci- 
men of a tarso-metatarsus—the bone agreeing completely with the cor- 
responding one in the pelvic limb (of this species) of a skeleton in the 
private collection of the writer. 
Pici. 
Ceophieus pileatus—A, right ulna with the extremities of the bone 
imperfect represents the Pileated Woodpecker in the collection. The 
specimen agrees exactly with the ulna of this species in the pectoral 
limb of a skeleton in my own cabinets. Even the prominent papillæ 
of the quill-butts of the secondary feathers down the shaft (and so 
characteristic of the ulne of true Pici), agree in number and in their 
*The relation of the specimens to the human culture layers discovered, the 
associated remains of the Tapir, Mylodon and other mammals identified by Pro- 
fessor Cope, and the shells identified by Professor Pilsbry is to be fully discussed 
later in the forthcoming reports of the Tennessee Expeditions of the University. 
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