NO. 2 AVIFAUNA OF rLEISTOCENE IN FLORIDA— -WETMORE 37 



Family ARAMTDAE 

 ARAMUS PICTUS (Meyer) 



Liiiipkin 

 Tantalus pictus Meyer, Zool. Ann., vol. i, 1794, p. 287. 



The distal end of a left humerus was collected by W. W. Holmes 

 in the Seminole area. Parts of five metatarsi and a broken tibio- 

 tarsus are found in collections from the Itchtucknee River deposits 

 in Columbia County, the specimens being in the Florida State Geo- 

 logical Survey. All these are similar to the corresponding bones in 

 modern birds. The species is of regular occurrence in Florida at the 

 present time. It has not been recorded previously as a fossil. 



Family RALLIDAE 

 RALLUS ELEGANS Audubon 



King rail 

 Ralliis clcgaiis Audubon, Birds Anier. (folio), vol. 3, 1834, pi. 203. 



In the Seminole area W. W. Holmes secured a complete right 

 femur, and Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Simpson obtained a humerus in the 

 Itchtucknee beds in Columbia County. These bones of this species 

 are distinguished from the clapper rail l)y larger size. 



This rail, common in Florida now, inhabits mainly fresh-water 

 marshes. It has not been recorded previously as a fossil. 



RALLUS LONGIROSTRIS Boddaert 



Clapper rail 

 Rallus loiigirostris Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enl., 1783, p. 52. 



The distal end of a humerus comes from the Seminole area, col- 

 lected by W. W. Holmes. The clapper rail is a sedentary species 

 inhabiting salt-water marshes that is common at the present time along 

 the coast of Florida, where several subspecies, slightly differentiated 

 from one another, occur in different geographic areas. 



It has not been reported previously as a fossil. 



ARAMIDES CAJANEA (Miiller) 

 Wood rail 

 Fulica cajanea Miiller, Vollst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, p. 119. 



The determination of two fragmentary metatarsi (see figs. 14-16) 

 and a nearly complete femur collected by W. W. Holmes in the Semi- 

 nole area as belonging to a form of wood rail, a group of birds com- 

 prising several forms that range now from southeastern Mexico south 



