34 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Eonessa anaticula Wetmose 



Eonessa anaticula Wetmore, Journ. Pal., vol. 12, No. 3, May 1938, p. 280, 

 figs. 1-5. 



Eocene (Uinta C horizon) : My ton Pocket, Utah. 



Subfamily MERGINAE: Mergansers 



Genus LOPHODYTES Reichenbach 



Lophodytcs Reichenbach, Avium Syst. Nat., 1852 (1853), p. ix. Type, by 

 original designation, Mergus cticiillatus Linnaeus. 



Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus) : Hooded Merganser ^9 

 Mergus cucullatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 120. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Pinellas 

 County, Venice, and Itchtucknee River, Florida ; Nye Sink, Beaver 

 County, Oklahoma. Late Pleistocene: McPherson County (Kentuck 

 locality), Kansas. 



Lophodytes floridana (Shufeldt)^^ 



Qnerquedula floridana Siiufeldt, 9th Ann. Rep. Florida State Geol. Surv., 

 1917, P- 36, pi. I, fig. 4, pl- 2, fig. 25. 



Pleistocene: Vero (stratum 2, type locality), Melbourne, and 

 Itchtucknee River, Florida. 



Genus MERGUS Linnaeus 



Mergus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 129. Type, by subse- 

 quent designation, Mergus castor Linnaeus = Mergus merganser Linnaeus 

 (Gray, 1840). 



Mergus merganser Linnaeus: Merganser 

 Mergus Merganser Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 129. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene : North Shore Channel, 

 Chicago, Illinois. ^^ Late Pleistocene : Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Mergus serrator Linnaeus : Red-breasted Merganser 



Mergus Serrator Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 129. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



3" Shufeldt's record from Fossil Lake, Oregon, is based on an erroneous identi- 

 fication. See Howard, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 551, Jan. 25, 1946, p. 176. 



<o See Wetmore, Condor, vol. 57, No. 3, 1955, p. 189. 



•*i Formerly recorded as Mergus serrator; see Wetmore, Wilson Bull., 1948, 

 p. 240. 



