liKlyS OK THE OREGON DESERT, 
r ( • a.ul uiK.n examination I find that it was probably the 
!;rHudLX“ gt-nua that of tbl'^'Qu 
n^7irvr"l-Ml‘«’t;rT\dnnula species judging from the long series o^ bones 
n r,vHi comparing them with the corresponding bones of 
rrr^ri .7„ri.riv«u. ;-.i.inet, a /)-/« which I ^ 
, x"« SuiU I lii..! •I--” *«»«■'- i" <-!«> “■! character.. The 
L.. .,«a-K- exi,.«l then «a .uav, and the anc.en mare hea of the lake, 
kne. Ihia hint .|uite a. well m do all sim.lar places throughout the In, ted 
.Stan** nt the pn*s«*iit time. 
(ViiM* collwtion: E<|UU8 He«ls of Oregon. 
Feuf* mikok up. nov. 
\pn-eiiig «>*te«l<.gicany with the bust lait a much smaller species. Keprcsented 
l.y « pair »f humeri, a pair of coracoids, and a right femur, apparently from as many 
iiHlivi.hmli» na then* an* siMi-iinens. When first examined by me I was inclined to 
la*lieve that the difll-n'iiee in size was merely sexual, but it is too great for that, 
aitil the w.xes hi /'. americami agree in size. Moreover the bones of Fulica minor 
an* nut fniiii siilmdult sjK*<Miiieiis, tliey exhibit all the evidence of having belonged 
tu fully adult hinls. 'I’hey dill’er with the same bones in lonornis and Gallinula. 
I make the following comparative mea.surements in millimetres. Tyjie bone is a 
hntneniit shown in i'l. XVII, fig. -12. 
F. aviericatia 
A minor 
M. 
-M. 
Height of ctimeuid 
32 
27 
lo’iigth (iriimiieni* 
70 
02 
ls*ii)rth uf femur 
57 
51 
t*o|H* eolh*rtion ; I’lhn'eiie of()n*gon. 
lHiwii<.a to iIm* V<-rtrlifai«> l'kl.-..iiiii|(,|pr of Toxajt”, it const itiitinjt a contribution to tiie Proceedings of the 
ItilPwoiilik*! .Sicicty (Vol. XXX). llrprints of that ijaper were issued April 14, 1892. Tlie fossil to 
• hW. I rrfM- lli.-rriii .Imrils-,! (pp. 125-127) ami secmwl to me to have belongcl to some rail-like bird 
^U«*. I uriidimlly tho luine of HtiUouies fora genus to contain it, giving it at the 
^ limr Uk* fipnriflc name of iWKimiu In a private note. .late<l Philadelphia, Fehruarv 14. 181)2. Professor 
7, .7"' ""In*’,.* is -vox hybrida’ (i. e. latin ami greek) 
,f,(t b cm-k for lUlluii : » ill Crwui.Ux or ('reccoims answer ? ” 
•Ch-Jllrbr* **'" criticism and suggestion, I at once adopted the name 
newarnu^and as CVmo.,i,/„ it ,luly apix-ure^l in the Proceedings above mentione.1. It 
"T . Alfred Newton, F. R. 8. the distingtiished 
College, Cambridge, England, 11 May, 1892, 
fVcccofdr.^1 tl.i„k you should have written 
the \ o 1? nilw <if mmirnrUliin. signify Crecca for Teal-like and by 
biwnd by lb«tn ". Iniliiii plare I divirl* to thn “ ""1’'*®''’’*’^. ^ flatter myself that some of us here are not 
««d I" <•» that I aim flatter nivmiru t i^fi^sor Newton for having iwinfod out to me this error. 
si bend “ by the A. O. U. rules of 
a* tymmln. inetrwl of *< fWoHfr,*' || '" 11 " '^onsi<'‘^i'ed in this note, to stand 
tirene**, aa it was origmally prmtexl in the Proc. Amor. Phil. Soc. for 1892 (p. 125). 
•/W. p. 
