32 THE WILD TURKEY AND ITS HUNTING 



birds state that M. antiqua came (A. O. U. Check- 

 Listed, 1910, p. 388 1 ). 



On the 19th of April 1912, I communicated 

 by letter with Dr. George F. Eaton, of the 

 Museum of Yale University, in regard to the 

 fossils described by Marsh of M. antiqua and 



Measurements . 

 Length of tibia 183. mm 



34. 

 9.6 

 16.5 

 10. 



Greatest diameter of proximal end . 

 Transverse diameter of shaft at middle 



Transverse diameter of distal end 

 Antero-posterior diameter of outer condyle 



Transverse diameter of proximal end of tarso-metatarsus 19 . 



Antero-posterior diameter 14, 



On page 260 is described Meleagris alius: 



Meleagris alius [Marsh]. Proc. Phila. Acad. 1870, p. 11, and Amer. 

 Nat., Vol. IV, p. 317. (M. swperbus Cope, Synopsis Extinct Ba- 

 trachia etc., p. 239.) 



(Followed by description and the following measurements of the 

 fossil bones.) 



Length (approx.) of humerus 159.5 mm 



Greatest diameter proximal end 42. 



Greatest diameter distal end 33. 



Length of coracoid 122. 



Transverse diameter of lower end 37.5 " 



Length of femur 150. 



Transverse diameter of distal end 31. 



Length of tibia 243. 



Transverse diameter of distal end 18. 



Length of tarso-metatarsus 176. 



Transverse diameter of proximal end .... 23. 



Distance from proximal end to spur . . . . 110. 

 (A number of differences as compared with existing species are enumerated ) 



^hufeldt, R. W. A Study of the Fossil Avifauna of the Equus Beds 

 of the Oregon Desert. Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., ser. 2, IX, 1892, 

 pp. 389-425. Pis. XV-XVII. Advance abstracts of this memoir were 

 published in The Auk (Vol. VIII, No. 4, October, 1891, pp. 365-368). 

 The American Naturalist (Vol. XXV, No. 292, Apr., 1891, pp. 303-306, 

 and ibid No. 297, Sept., 1891, pp. 818-821) and elsewhere. Although 

 no turkeys were discovered among these fossils, there were bones present 

 of extinct grouse. 



