412 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Phalacrocorax mediterraneus Shufeldt. 



Phalacrocorax mediterraneus Shufeldt, Trans. Conn, Acad. Arts Sci., 

 XIX, Feb., 1915, 58, pi. XV, fig. 138. 



Oligocene (White River); Gerry's Ranch, Northern Colorado. 



Family ANHINGIDAE. Darters. 



Genus ANHINGA Brisson. 



Anhinga Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 60: VI, 476. Type, by monotypy, 

 Anhinga Brisson = Plotus anhinga Linnaeus. 



Anhinga anhinga (Linnaeus). Water-Turkey. 



Plotus Anhinga Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, I, 1766, 218. 

 Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Melbourne (Stratum 2), Florida. 



Order CICONIIFORMES. Herons, Storks, Ibises, 

 Flamingos, and Allies. 



Suborder ARDEAE. Herons, Bitterns, and Allies. 



Family ARDEIDAE. Herons and Bitterns. 



Subfamily ARDEINAE. Herons and Egrets. 



Genus ARDEA Linnaeus. ^ 



Ardea Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 141. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Ardea cinerea Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Ardea herodias Linnaeus. Great Blue Heron. 



Ardea Herodias Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 143. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Vero (Stratum 3), Melbourne, 

 Itchtucknee River, Bradenton and Seminole Field, Florida; Fossil Lake, 

 Oregon; Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, and McKittrick, California. 



1 Ardea sellardsi Shufeldt (Journ. Geol., Jan.-Feb. (Jan.), 1917, 19) de- 

 scribed from Vero (Stratum 3), Florida, proves to be based on the tibio-tarsus 

 of Meleagris gallopavo. See Wetmore, Smiths. Misc. Coll., 85, No. 2, April 13, 

 1931, 32. 



