NO. 5 CHECK-LIST OF FOSSIL BIRDS — WETMORE 2$ 



Subgenus STHENELIDES Stejneger 



Stheitclides Stejneger, Stand. Nat. Hist., vol. 4, 1885, p. 143. Type, by 

 monotypy, Anas mclancoripha Molina. 



Cygnus paloregonus (Cope) 2* 



Cygnus paloregonus Cope, Bull. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., vol. 4, No. 2, 1878, 

 p. 388. 



Pleistocene : Froman's Ferry, Idaho. Late Pleistocene : Fossil Lake, 

 Oregon (type locality)."^ 



Genus OLOR Wagler 



Olor Wagler, Isis von Oken, 1832, col. 1234. Type, by subsequent designa- 

 tion, Cygnus nmsicus Bechstein ^ /4Ma.y cygnus Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



Subgenus OLOR Wagler 

 Olor columbianus (Ord) : Whistling Swan 



Anas columbianus Ord, in Guthrie, Geogr., 2d Amer. ed., 1815, p. 319. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene : Seminole Field, Pinellas 

 County, Florida. Late Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, 

 and McKittrick, Kern County, California, 



Subgenus CLANGOCYCNUS Oberholser 



Clangocycnus Oberholser, Emu, vol. 8, pt. i, July 1908, p. 3. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Cygnus bticcinator Richardson. 



Olor buccinator (Richardson) : Trumpeter Swan 



Cygnus buccinator Richardson, in Wilson and Bonaparte, Amer. Orn., Jame- 

 son ed., vol. 4, August 1831, p. 345. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene : Aurora, Illinois ; Itchtuck- 

 nee River, Florida. Late Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Subfamily ANSERINAE: Geese 



Genus BRANTA Scopoli 



Branta Scopoli, Annus I, Historico-Naturalis, 1769, p. 67. Type, by subse- 

 quent designation. Anas bernicia Linnaeus (Bannister, 1870). 



2* Subgeneric allocation tentative. 



2^ Specimens named Cygnus matthczvi and Anscr condoni by Shufeldt are now 

 identified as C. paloregonus. See Howard, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 551, 

 Jan. 25, 1946, pp. 160, 162, 163. 



