NO. 5 CHECK-LIST OF FOSSIL BIRDS — WETMORE 1 5 



Sula avita Wetmore 



Sula avita Wetmore, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 85, Jan. 14, 1938, p. 22, 

 figs. 2-3. 



Middle Miocene (Calvert formation) : western shore of Chesapeake 

 Bay, near Plumpoint, Calvert County, Maryland. 



Genus MIOSULA Miller 



Miosula L. H. Miller, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 349, August 1925, 

 p. 114. Type, by monotypy, Miosula media Miller. 



Miosula media Miller 



Miosula media L. H. Miller, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 349, August 

 1925, p. 114, pl. 5- 



Middle Miocene (Temblor formation, Turritella ocoyana zone) : 

 Lompoc, Santa Barbara County, California. 



Miosula recentior Howard 



Miosula recentior Howard, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 584, June 22, 

 1949, p. 190, pl. 2, figs. i-2a. 



Middle Pliocene (San Diego formation) : Curlew Street, opposite 

 Ostego Drive, San Diego, California. 



Genus MORUS Vieillot 



Morns Vieillot, Analyse, April 1816, p. 63. Type, by monotypy, Pelecanus 

 bassanus Linnaeus. 



Morus loxostyla (Cope)i* 



Sula loxostyla Cope, Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, n.s., vol. 14, December 1870, 

 p. 236, fig. S3. 



Miocene: Calvert County (type locality), Maryland; New Jersey. 



Morus vagabundus Wetmore 



Moris vagabundus Wetmore, Proc. California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 19, No. 8, 

 July 15, 1930, p. 89, fig. 4- 



Middle Miocene (Temblor formation) : Sharktooth Hill (type 

 locality), about 7 miles northeast, and west branch of Granite Creek, 

 II miles north of Bakersfield, California. 



^* Sula atlantica Shufeldt, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts Sci., vol. 19, Feb- 

 ruary 1915, p. 62, pl. 15, fig. 123, from the Miocene of New Jersey, is considered 

 a synonym of M. loxostyla; cf. Wetmore, Auk, 1926, p. 465. 



