FOSSIL BIRDS, 417 



Suborder PHOENICOPTERI. Flamingos. 

 Family PHOENICOPTERIDAE. Flamingos. 



Genus PHOENICOPTERUS Linnaeus. 



PJioenicopterus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 139. Type, by 

 monotypy, Phoenicopterus ruber Linnaeus. 



Phoenicopterus copei Shufeldt. 



Phoenicopterus copei Shufeldt, Amer. Nat., XXV, No. 297, Sept., 1891, 

 820. 



Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Order ANSERIFORMES. Screamers, Swans, 

 Geese, and Ducks. 



Suborder ANSERES. Swans, Geese, and Ducks, 

 AND Allies. 



Family ANATIDAE. Swans, Geese, and Ducks. 

 Subfamily CYGNINAE, Swans. 



Genus CYGNUS Bechstein. 



Cygmis Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. Deutschl., II, 180.3, 404, footnote. 

 Type, by tautonymy, Ajias cygnus Linnaeus. 



Subgenus CYGNUS Bechstein. 



Cygnus columbianus (Ord). Whistling Swan. 



Anas columbianus Ord, in Guthrie, Geog., 2d Amer. ed., 1815, 319. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Florida; Fossil Lake, 

 Oregon. 



Subgenus CLANGOCYCNUS. Oberholser. 



Clangocycnus Oberholser, Emu, VIII, Ft. 1, July, 1908, 3. Type, by 

 monotypy, Cygnus buccinator Richardson. 



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