FOSSIL BIRDS, 465 



Genus ASYNDESMUS Coxjes. 



Asyndesmus Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., [XVII] 1866, No. 1, 

 Jan.-March [June 11], 55. Type, by orig. desig., Picus torquatus 

 Wilson = Picus lewis Gray. 



Asyndesmus lewis (Gray). Lewis' Woodpecker. 



Picus Lewis "Drapiez," Gray, Gen. Birds, III, 1849, App., 22. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, 

 California. 



Order PASSERIFORMES. Perching Birds. 

 Suborder PASSERES. Song Birds. 



Family ALAUDIDAE. Larks. 



Genus OTOCORIS Bonaparte. 



Otocoris Bonaparte, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bologna), II, 1838, 407. 

 Type, by monotypy, Phileremos cornutus Bonaparte = Alauda cornuta 

 Wilson = Alauda alpestris Linnaeus. 



Otocoris alpestris (Linnaeus). Homed Lark. 



Alauda alpestris Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 166. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, 

 California. 



Family PALAEOSPIZIDAE. Palaeospiza. 



Genus PALAEOSPIZA Allen. 



Palaeospiza Allen, Bull. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., IV, No. 2, May 

 3, 1878, 443. Type, by monotypy, Palaeospiza bella Allen. 



Palaeospiza bella Allen. 



Palaeospiza bella Allen, Bull. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., IV, No. 2, 

 May 3, 1878, 443, pi. i, figs. 1, 2. 



Upper Miocene (Florissant lake beds) : Florissant, Colorado. 

 Family HIRUNDINIDAE. Swallows. 



Genus PETROCHELIDON Cabanis. 



Petrochelidon Cabanis, Mus. Hein., I, Oct., 1851, 47. Type, by subs. 



desig., Hirundo melanogasler Swainson (Gray, 1855). 

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