Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo05amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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70 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL and astragalus and part of left fibula. The backbone and most of the neck of this specimen were found articulated together in the quarry, the ribs of one side in position, the remainder of the bones scattered arotind them, and some of the tail-bones weathered otit on the surface. From No. 222, found at Como Bluffs, V^yo., were supplied the right scapvila, loth dorsal vertebra, and right femur and tibia. No. 339, from Bone Cabin Ouarrj^, Wyo., supplied the 20th to 40th caudal vertebra^; No. 592, from the same looalit)', the metatarsals of the right hind foot, and a few toe-bones are supplied from other specimens. The remainder of the skeleton is modeled in plaster, the scapula, humerus, radius and ulna from the skeleton in the Yale Museum, the rest principallj^ from specimens in our own collections. The modeling of the skiill is based in part upon a smaller incomplete skull in the Yale ■Vltiseum, but principally upon the complete skull of Morosaiiriis shown in Case 42. Mounted by A. Hermann; completed Feb. 10, 1905.
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TWO NEW BIRD GROUPS. HE recently completed group of Flamingos and of the summer bird-life of the San Joaquin Valley of California, photographs of which are repro- duced on pages 71 and 77, more closely approach the Museum's ideal of an exhibit illustrating the haunts and nesting-habits of birds than any which have here- tofore been prepared. Both are based upon careful field studies, by artist as well as by ornithologist, and both accurately portray not only the home- life of the species they represent, but also, through the use of a painted background, the character of the region in which the birds live. Aside from their beauty, which renders them attractive to the most casual observer as well as to the ornithologist, these groups possess much scientific value. This is particularly true of the Flamingo group, in which the nesting-habits of this bird are for the first time properly shown. These two groups make important additions to the series already prepared through the generosity of several friends of the Museum, who have contributed to a fund designed for this purpose. By no means the least important feature of the )\Iuseum's expedition to the Bahamas in search of material for the Flamingo

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