NO. 5 CHECK-LIST OF FOSSIL BIRDS — WETMORE I7 



Phalacrocorax auritus (Lesson) : Double-crested Cormorant 

 Carbo auritus Lesson, Traite d'Orn., livr. 8, June 11, 1831, p. 605. 



Modern form reported from Pliocene : Dry Creek, Malheur County, 

 Oregon. Upper Pliocene (Hagerman lake beds) : Near Hagerman, 

 Idaho. Pleistocene: Melbourne (stratum 2), Sarasota, Bradenton, 

 Seminole Field, Pinellas County, Itchtucknee River, and Vero, 

 Florida. Late Pleistocene (Palos Verdes sand) : Santa Monica 

 and San Pedro, Los Angeles County, California. ? Pleistocene : Rattle- 

 snake Hill, Fallon, Nevada. 



Phalacrocorax penicillatus (Brandt) : Brandt's Cormorant 



Carbo penicillatus Brandt, Bull. Sci. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Petersbourg, vol. 3, 

 No. 4, Nov. 16, 1837, col. 55. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene (Palos Verdes sand) : 

 Newport Bay, Orange County ; Santa Monica and San Pedro (lumber- 

 yard locality), Los Angeles County, California. 



Phalacrocorax femoralis Miller 



Phalacrocorax femoralis L. H. Miller, Condor, vol. 31, No. 4, July 15, 1929, 

 p. 167, figs. 58-59. 



Upper Miocene (Modclo formation) : Calabasas, Los Angeles 

 County, California. 



Phalacrocorax idahensis (Marsh) 

 Graculus idahensis Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 2, vol. 49, 1870, p. 216. 



Pliocene: Castle Creek; Ovi^yhee County (type locality), Idaho; 

 Pliocene (Bone Valley formation) : Near Brewster, Polk County, 

 Florida. Upper Pliocene (Hagerman lake beds) : Near Hagerman, 

 Idaho. 



Phalacrocorax macropus (Cope) 



Graculus macropus Cope, Bull. Geol. Gcogr. Surv. Terr., vol. 4, No. 2, 1878, 

 p. 386. 



Late Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon." 



Phalacrocorax marinavis Shufeldt 



Phalacrocorax marinazns Shufeldt, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Sci., vol. 19, 

 February 1915, p. 56, pi. 14, figs. 114, 116-118, 122. 



? Oligocene (John Day) : Willow Creek, Oregon. 



^■^ Shufeldt, Auk, 1915, pp. 485-488, has identified material from the Miocene of 

 Montana as this si)ecies, but examination of the specimen reveals that this is 

 in error. 



