FOSSIL BIRDS. 415 



Botaurus lentiginosus (Montagu). American Bittern. 



Ardea Icnliginosa Montagu, Suppl. Orn. Diet., 1S13, not paged, see under 

 Heron, Freckled. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, and Sarasota, 

 Florida; Fossil Lake, Oregon; Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Genus BOTAUROIDES Shufeldt. 



Bolauroidcs Shufeldt, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci., XIX, Feb., 1915, 33. 

 Type, by monotypy, Botauroides parvus Shufeldt. 



Botauroides parvus Shufeldt. 



Bolauroidcs pai'vus Shufeldt, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci., XIX, Feb., 

 1915, 33. 



Eocene (?Bridger); "Spanish John Meadow," Wyoming. 



Suborder CICONIAE. Storks, Ibises, and Allies. 



SuPERFAMiLY CICONIOIDEA. Storks and AVood Ibises. 



Family CICONIIDAE. Storks and Wood Ibises. 



Subfamily CICONIINAE. Storks. 



Genus JABIRU IIellmayr.i 

 Jabiru Hellmayr, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., II Kl., XXII, May, 1906, 

 711. Type, by orig. desig., Ciconia myctcria Lichtenstein. 



Jabiru mycteria (Lichtenstein). Jabiru. 



Ciconia myctcria Lichtenstein, Alihandl. Kon. Akad. Wiss. Berlin [Phys. 

 Klass.], for 1816-1817 [1819], 163. 



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

 (Stratum 2), Itchtucknee River, Seminole Field, and Venice, Florida. 



Genus CICONIA Brisson. 



Ciconia Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 48; V, 361. Type, by tautonymy, Ciconia 

 alba — Ardea ciconia Linnaeus. 



1 Jabiru weillsi Sellards, Florida State Geol. Surv., Sth Ann. Rep., 1916, 14, 

 pi. 26, figs. 1-4, text-fig. 15, fig. C, is a synonym of Jabiru mycteria (Lichten- 

 stein). See Wetmore, Smiths. Misc. Coll., 85, no. 2, April 13, 1931, 17. 



