UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS 



BULLETIN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 



GEOLOGY 



Vol. 9, No. 7, pp. 89-96, 2 text-figures Issued March 10, 1916 



A REVIEW OF THE SPECIES PAVO 

 CALIFORNICUS 



BY 



LOYE HOLMES MILLER 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Introduction 89 



Detailed Discussion 90 



Tarsometatarsus 90 



Tibiotarsus 91 



Femur 93 



Humerus 94 



Coracoid 94 



Carpometacarpus 94 



Conclusions 95 



INTRODUCTION 



At the close of the first excavation of the University of California 

 at Rancho La Brea, there were found among the avian remains result- 

 ing from this work a small number of very imperfect specimens 

 representing a large gallinaceous bird of unknown affinities. Later 

 in the same locality, the perfect tarsometatarsus of an adult male of 

 presumably the same species was taken by the present writer and a 

 second specimen of the same bone was generously donated by Mr. E. 

 J. Fischer of Los Angeles. These perfect specimens constituted the 

 material from which was described the new species Pavo calif ornicus 

 Miller 1 and the type specimen was deposited in the palaeontological 

 collections at the University of California. 



At the time the original description was published, Meleagris 

 gallopavo (domestic) was the only meleagrine available for com- 

 parison. Recourse was had to the extensive monograph of Milne- 



i Miller, L. II., Univ. Calif. Publ. Bull. Dept. Geol., vol. 5, no. 19, p. 285, 1909. 



