COLLECTIONS OF NEW MEXICO BIRDS 
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FOSSIL BIRDS FOUND IN NEW MEXICO 
There is evidence that in the far distant past New Mexico possessed a 
bird fauna very different from the present one. A fragmentary speci¬ 
men of an extinct bird somewhat larger than an ostrich, now in the U. S. 
National Museum, was found by Professor Cope in the Eocene of New 
Mexico and described under the name Diatryma gigantea. A practically 
complete skeleton of another fossil bird of the same genus, D. steini , was 
found in 1916 in the Bighorn Badlands of Wyoming and is now in the 
American Museum of Natural History in New York. 1 
In the late Tertiary sands north of Pojuaque, northwest of Santa Fe, 
Professor Cope found the remains of a rapacious bird intermediate in 
size between the Golden Eagle and the Turkey Vulture, described as 
Palaeoborus umbrosns 2 
LOCATION OF COLLECTIONS MADE IN NEW MEXICO 
Name of Collector 
Location 
Aiken, C. E. Ii.Mainly in Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo. 
Anderson, W. W.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Anthony, A. W.Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Barber, C. M.College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Mesilla Park, 
N. Mex. 
Batchelder, C. F.Cambridge, Mass. 
Bendire, C. E.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Biological Survey.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Birtwell, F. J.College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Mesilla Park, 
N. Mex. 
Coues, Elliott.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Heermann, A. L.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Henry, T. C.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C., and 
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Ilenshaw, H. W.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C., and Natural 
History Museum, London. 
Jensen, J. K.Santa Fe, New Mexico (eggs). 
Kellogg, R. T.Silver City, N. Mex. 
Mearns, E. A.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. (in part) 
Metcalfe, O. B.College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Mesilla Park, 
N. Mex. 
Nelson, E. W.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. (in part) 
Palmer, Edward.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Seton, E. T.Greenwich, Conn. 
Shufeldt, It. W.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Stejneger, L. H.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Stephens, Frank.Aiken’s collection, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 
Colo. 
Stevenson, Col. James-U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Woodhouse, S. W.U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
3 Granger, Walter, Bird-Lore, XIX, 193-199, 1917. Casts of D. steini are now in the American 
Museum, the National Museum, and others. 
“Cope, E. D., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1874, 151. 
