Post by another specialist on Nov 2, 2005 16:05:52 GMT
Wetmore.--Two bones of Vol. 55] 1938 J WETMORE, Bird Remains from the West Indies 55 this extinct species come from depths of between a quarter and a half meter. An ulna is slightly larger and more robust than that bone in Oreopdeia
montana, measuring 43.3 mm. in total length. A complete tibiotarsus, while preserving the slender, elongated form of the modern species, montana, is distinctly larger. It measures as follows: total length, 58.5; transverse breadth of distal end, 6.0; transverse breadth of shaft near center, 2.9 mm. Right and left humeri were obtained in the oldest levels, in the crab culture, one perfect and the other nearly so. They measure as
follows: total length, 36.9, 37.3; transverse breadth through head, 13.0, 13.0; transverse breadth of distal end, 9.3, 9.3; transverse breadth of shaft at center, 4.4, 4.8 min. The additional record of this species, known only from bones obtained in cavern and midden deposits, is of importance.
elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v055n01/p0051-p0055.pdf
montana, measuring 43.3 mm. in total length. A complete tibiotarsus, while preserving the slender, elongated form of the modern species, montana, is distinctly larger. It measures as follows: total length, 58.5; transverse breadth of distal end, 6.0; transverse breadth of shaft near center, 2.9 mm. Right and left humeri were obtained in the oldest levels, in the crab culture, one perfect and the other nearly so. They measure as
follows: total length, 36.9, 37.3; transverse breadth through head, 13.0, 13.0; transverse breadth of distal end, 9.3, 9.3; transverse breadth of shaft at center, 4.4, 4.8 min. The additional record of this species, known only from bones obtained in cavern and midden deposits, is of importance.
elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v055n01/p0051-p0055.pdf
