VMVI'H HKDS OF THE OREGON DESERT. 
IHlW I 
I fulllKl liotllillir to t*ll|»|M)rt bwv. - 
ty,.-. ill fxi-U-..ce that such a carpo-metacarpus a, dtd 
'"'‘'Tm'tm- thb'»*aTi.’.'ili la.iK.r ofiiiy friend Doctor Tlieodore X. Gill, the distin- 
iniiKlie<l Amorirnn imtiiniliHt and iclithyologist. 
S. fur w I know tlii» in all tlic material that has been discovered up to the 
|,r,*.i--nt tiiiif of thin extinct Crouse, and it is the sole species of the genus, which 
I hen* cn*nte t*» «i»ntain it. 
l-i.miii* H«h1h «»fOn-jr«»n : (’ojK* collection. 
'I'lie ffillowing is a list of »|H*cies and genera thus far discovered in this horizon : 
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus. 
Pedioccrtes phasianellus cohimbiaims. 
I'edioctfles lucasi sp. nov. 
I'f(fioc<rtes nanus sp. nov. 
Paltrotelrix yilli gen. et. sp. nov. 
ACCIPITRES. 
A<<i‘n.A ri.io«*Mvrs *|i. nor. 
ladirnt«-<i liy but one Ijone in the collection, — the basal phalanx of hallux digit 
of the right |Mdvir linib. After comparing it with the corresponding element 
ns it iircun. in the skeletons of all our existing North American hiagles and a 
niimlier«»f foreign ones. I tind that it dws not agree with any, but belonged to a 
binl n-lnt.tl to ylquila chrysactos. As indicated by the bone under examination, 
however, the feet of this Kagle wen* moix* slender than they are in our Colden Eagle, 
and the joints inenly a trille longer. I am inclined to the opinion that this e.xtinct 
F,«gle was n si«. Uirger, though iK‘rhnps a slighter bird, than any of our now^xist- 
ing I nite«l States Eagles. 
me.\.sirkmexts. 
(jn-ntest length of the hasjd joint of hallux "33^ 
tinati st diameter, proximal extremity 1' 
Transvenn* diameter, middle of the shaft G 
Tn....v..n,. di.l«n«. U.i„,.cu the anterior troclileai bottlers f, 
