FOSSIL BIRDS. 447 



SuPERFAMiLY RALLOIDEA. Rails, Gallinules, and Coots. 



Family RALLIDAE. Rails, Gallinules, and Coots. 

 Subfamily RALLINAE. Rails. 



Genus TELMATORNIS Marsh.i 



Telmafornis Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 2, XLIX, March, 1870, 210. 

 Type, by subs, desig., Telmatornis priscus Marsh (Ha^^ 1902). 



Telmatomis affinis Marsh. 



Telmatornis affinis Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 2, XLIX, March, 1870, 

 211. 



Eocene: Hornerstown, New Jersey. 



Telmatornis priscus Marsh. 



Telmatornis priscus Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 2, XLIX, March, 

 1870, 210. 



Eocene: Hornerstown, New Jersey. 



Telmatomis rex Shufeldt. 



Telmatornis rex Shufeldt, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci., XIX, Feb., 1915, 

 27, pi. XIII, fig. 101. 



Eocene: Hornerstown, New Jersey. 



Genus PALAEORALLUS Wetmore. 



Palaeorallus Wetmore, Condor, XXXIII, No. 3, May 15, 1931, 108. 

 Type, by orig. desig., Palaeorallus iroxelli Wetmore. 



Palaeorallus troxelli Wetmore. 



Palaeorallus troxelli Wetmore, Condor, XXXIII, No. 3, May 15, 1931, 

 108, figs. 26-29. 



Eocene (Wasatch) : Northwest of Little Tatman Mountain, near Burlington, 

 Wyoming. 



Genus CRECCOIDES Shufeldt. 



Creccoides Shufeldt, in Cope, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, XXX, April 14, 

 1892, 125. TjTJe, by monotypy, Creccoides osbornii Shufeldt. 



Allocation in this subfamily provisional. 



