454 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS, 



Genus MICROPALAMA Baird. 



Micropnlama Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and 

 Surv. R. R. Pac, IX, 185S, xxii, xlvii, 714, 726. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Tringa himantopus Bonaparte. 



Micropalama hestemus Wetmore. 



Micropalama hestemus Wetmore, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., LXIV, Art. 5, 

 Jan. 15, 1924, 11, figs. 6-7. 



Upper Pliocene: Two miles south of Benson, Arizona. 



Genus LIMOSA Brisson. 



Limosa Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 261; V, 48. Type, by tautonymy, Liinosa 

 Brisson = Scolopax limosa Linnaeus. 



Lim6sa vanrossemi Miller. 



Limosa vanrossemi L. H. Miller, Carnegie Inst. Wash., Publ. 349, Aug., 

 1925, 116, pi. 6. 



Miocene (Temblor, Turritella ocoijana zone); Lompoc, California. 

 Family RECURVIROSTRIDAE. Avocets and Stilts. 



Genus RECURVIROSTRA Linnaeus. 



Recurvirostra Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 151. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Recurvirostra avosetta Linnaeus. 



Recurvirostra americana Gmelin. Avocet. 



Recurvirostra americana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 693. 

 Modern form reported from Pleistocene: McKittrick, California. 



Family PRESBYORNITHIDAE. Presbyornithes. 



Genus PRESBYORNIS Wetmore. 



Presbyornis Wetmore, Ann. Carnegie Mus., XVI, April 10, 1926, 396. 

 Type, by monotypy, Presbyornis pervetus Wetmore. 



Presbyornis pervetus Wetmore. 



Presbyornis pervetus Wetmore, Ann. Carnegie Mus., XVI, April 10, 1926, 

 396, pi. 37, figs. 10-20. 



Eocene (bottom of Green River Formation) : White River, Utah, two miles 

 from Colorado State Line. 



