438 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Order GALLIFORMES. Gallinaceous Birds 

 and hoatzins. 



Suborder GALLI. Gallinaceous Birds. 



superfamily cracoidea. curassows and guans. 



Family GALLINULOIDIDAE. Gallinuloides. 



Genus GALLINULOIDES Eastman.^ 



Gallinuloides Eastman, Geol. Mag., Feb. 1900, 54. Type, by monotypy, 

 Gallinuloides wyoiningensis Eastman. 



Gallinuloides wyomingensis Eastman. 



Gallintdoides ivyomingensis Eastman, Geol. Mag., n. s., Pt. 4, VII, No. 2, 

 Feb., 1900, 54, pi. iv. 



Eocene (Bridger, Green River Shales); Fossil,- and Henry's Fork, Wyoming. 



Family CRACIDAE. Curassows and Guans. 

 Subfamily PENELOPINAE. Guans. 



Genus ORTALIS Merrem. 



Ortalida { = Ortalis] Meerem, Avium Rar. Icones et Descrip., II, 1786, 40. 

 Type, by subs, desig., Phasianus motmot Linnaeus (Lesson, 1829). 



Ortalis phengites Wetmore. • 



Ortalis phengites Wetmore, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XLVIII, Art. 12, 

 Dec. 3, 1923, 487, figs. 1-2. 



Lower Pliocene (Snake Creek beds): South of Agate, Sioux County, Ne- 

 braska. 



1 Palaeobonasa Shufeldt, Journ. Geol., XXXIII, 1915, 633, type Gallinu- 

 loides wyomingensis Eastman is a direct synonym of Gallinuloides. 



2 Type locality. 



