fossil birds. 455 



Family PHALAROPODIDAE. Phalaropes. 

 Genus LOBIPES Cuvier. 



Lobipcs Cuvier, Regne Animal, I, 1817 [Dec. 7, 1816], 495. Type, by 

 orig. desig., Tringa hyperborea Linnaeus = Tringa lobata Linnaeus. 



Lobipes lobatus (Linnaeus). Northern Phalarope. 



Tringa lobata [sic] Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 148. 

 Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



SuPERFAMiLY OEDICNEMOIDEA. Thick-knees. 



Family OEDICNEMIDAE. Thick-knees. 



Subfamily BATHORNITHINAE. Bathornithes. 



Genus BATHORNIS Wetmore. 



Bathornis Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., VII, No. 2, July 15, 

 1927, 11. Type, by monotypy, Bathornis veredus Wetmore. 



Bathornis veredus Wetmore. 



Bathornis veredus Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., VII, No. 2, 

 July 15, 1927, 11, figs. 19-24. 



Oligocene (Chadron): Weld County, Colorado. 



. Suborder LARI. Skuas, Gulls and Terns. 



Family LARIDAE. Gulls and Terns. 

 Subfamily LARINAE. Gulls, 



Genus LARUS Linnabus.i 



Larus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 136. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Larus canus Linnaeus (Selby, 1840). 



1 Larus vero Shufeldt, (Jour. Geol., Jan.-Feb., 1917, 18) has been identified 

 by Wetmore as Nyctanassa violacea Linnaeus (Smiths. Misc. Coll., LVXXXV, 

 No. 2, April 13, 1931, 16). 



