NO. 2 AVIFAUNA OF PLEISTOCENE IN FLORIDA WETMORE I3 



America. As it has been recorded in Pleistocene beds in Oregon and 

 California (McKittrick) its presence in deposits of that age in Florida 

 indicates a similar wide distribution for North America during the 

 Ice Age. 



Order PROCELLARIIFORMES 

 Family PROCELLARIIDAE 

 PUFFINUS PUFFINUS (Briinnich) 



Manx shearwater 



ProccUaria puffinns Briinnich. Orn. Bor., 1764, p. 29. 



A left metacarpal with the fourth metacarpus missing was secured 

 by J. W. Gidley near Melbourne, March i8, 1929. This shearwater 

 as a species now ranges from Norway south into the Mediterranean, 

 breeding in Iceland, the Azores and other islands, and at least casually 

 on Bermuda. At the present time it occurs rarely along the coasts of 

 North America. It has not been recorded previously as fossil nor has 

 it been known before from Florida. 



Order PELECANIEORMES 



Family PHALACROCORACIDAE 



PHALACROCORAX AURITUS (Lesson) 



Double-crested cormorant 



Carbo anritus Lesson, Traite Orn., 1831, p. 605. 



Cormorants of this type apparently were as widely distributed in 

 Florida during the Pleistocene as they are today, for in the collections 

 here under review there are found the lower end of a tibio-tarsus and 

 part of an ulna from stratum Number Two at Melbourne secured by 

 J. W. Gidley, part of an ulna from Hog Creek, near Sarasota, obtained 

 by J. E. Moore in 1928, and a sacrum and three fragments of humeri 

 from the Holmes collections in the Seminole Field. In the collections 

 of the Florida State Geological Survey there are a complete humerus, 

 part of an ulna and other bones from the Itchtucknee River, Columbia 

 County, another humerus, white in color, from Rock Springs in 

 Orange County that is very doubtfully Pleistocene in age, and still 

 another humerus from the north bank of the canal west of the rail- 

 road bridge at Vero. 



The resident cormorant of this group found now in Florida, Pliala- 

 crocorax anritus floridanus, is smaller than the bird from farther north 

 and west, PJialacrocorax anritus anritus, which comes to Florida as 



