418 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Cygnus buccinator Richardson. Trumpeter Swan. 



Cygnus buccinator Richardson, in Wilson and Bonaparte, Amer. Orn., 

 Jameson ed., IV, Aug., 1831, 345. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Itchtucknee River, Florida; Fossil 

 Lake, Oregon. 



Cygnus matthewi (Shufeldt).i 



Olor matthewi Shufeldt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXII, July 9, 

 1913, 1.51, pis. XXVI, fig. 309, pi. XXXV, fig. 422. 



Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Cygnus paloregonus Cope.* 



Cygnus paloregonus Cope, Bull. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., IV, No. 2, 

 1878, 388. 

 Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon;- Froman Ferry, Idaho. 



Subfamily ANSERINAE. Geese. 



Genus BRANTA Scopoli. 



Brania Scopoli, Annus I, Historico-Naturalis, 1769, 67. Type by tau- 

 tonymy, Anas bernicla Linnaeus {Branta Aldrovandus, insynonymjO- 



Branta canadensis (Linnaeus). Canada Goose. 



Amis canadensis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 123. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, and Itchtucknee 

 River, Florida; Fossil Lake, Oregon; Potter Creek Cave, Shasta County, 

 Alameda County, Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, and Upper San Pedro 

 formation, San Pedro, California. 



Branta canadensis htitchinsi (Richardson). Hutchins' Goose. 



Anser Hutchinsii Richardson, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna 

 Bor.-Amer., II, 1831 [1832], 470. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Itchtucknee River, 

 and Melbourne, Florida. 



Branta minuscula Wetmore. 



Branta minuscula Wetmore, Proc U. S. Nat. Mus., LXIV, Art. 5, Jan. 15, 

 1924, 6, figs. 3-4. 



Upper Pliocene: Near Benson, Arizona. 



' Subgeneric allocation doubtful. 

 2 Type locality. 



