60 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Fulicaletornis venustus (Marsh) ^^ 



Aletornis venustus Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 4, October 1872, 

 p. 257- 



Eocene (Bridger formation) : Henry's Fork, Wyoming. 



Genus PARAGRUS Lambrecht 



Paragrus Lambrecht, Handb. Palaeorn., 1933, p. 520. Type, by monotypy, 

 Gallinuloides prentici Lootnis. 



Paragrus prentici (Loomis) 



Gallinuloides prentici F. B. Loomis, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 22, Decem- 

 ber 1906, p. 481, figs. 1-3. 



Eocene (Wasatch) : Head of Elk Creek, lo miles west of Otto, 

 Wyoming. 



Genus GRUS Pallas 



Grus Pallas, Misc. Zool., 1766, p. 66. Type, by tautonymy, Ardca grtis Lin- 

 naeus. 



Grus americana (Linnaeus) : Whooping Crane 

 Ardca americana Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., cd. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 142. 



Modern form reported from late Upper Pliocene : Snake River, 

 13 miles northwest of Grandview, Idaho. Pleistocene: Seminole Field, 

 Pinellas County, Itchtucknee River, and Melbourne (stratum 2), Flor- 

 ida. Late Pleistocene: Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Grus canadensis (Linnaeus) : Sandhill Crane s* 

 Ardea canadcyisis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 141. 



Modern form reported from Lower Pliocene (Upper Snake Creek 

 beds) : Sioux County, Nebraska. From ? Pleistocene: Niobrara River, 

 Nebraska,*^ and Grizzly Buttes, Wyoming. From Pleistocene: Ash- 



83 Systematic allocation provisional. Shufeldt, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts 

 Sci., vol. 19, February 1915, pp. 31, 32, y6, placed this species in the genus 

 Fulica, the principal basis for Lambrecht's action in proposing Fulicaletornis. 



^* Grus canadensis is used as a species name to cover records of cranes of 

 this type from the Pliocene and Pleistocene, including specimens that range 

 in size from the modern little brown crane to the larger races of the sandhill 

 crane. 



Grus minor L. H. Miller, Univ. California Publ., Bull. Dept. Geol., vol. 5, 

 August 1910, p. 446, fig. 8, from the Pleistocene of Rancho La Brea, is now 

 considered by the describer as a synonym of Grus canadensis. 



85 This specimen, from either Pliocene or Pleistocene deposits, is the basis 

 of Grus haydcni Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 2, vol. 49, 1870, p. 214, con- 

 sidered by Wetmore, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 302, Feb. 29, 1928, p. 4, as a synonym 

 of Grus canadensis. 



