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Fulica minor Shufeldt''^ 

 Fulica minor Siiufeldt, Amer. Nat., vol. 25, No. 297, September 1891, p. 820. 

 Late Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Suborder CARIAMAE: Cariamas and Allies 



Family BATHORNITHIDAE : Bathornithes 



Genus BATHORNIS Wetmore 



Bathornis Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, No. 2, July 15, 

 1927, p. II. Type, by monotypy, Bathornis veredus Wetmore. 



Bathornis veredus Wetmore 



Bathornis veredus Wetmore, Proc. Colorado Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, No. 2, 

 July 15, 1927, p. II, figs. 19-24. 



Lower Oligocene (Chadronian, Horsetail Creek facies) : Horsetail 

 Creek, Weld County, Colorado (type locality) ; near Crawford, Ne- 

 braska; Indian Creek, Pennington County, South Dakota. 



Bathornis celeripes Wetmore 



Bathornis celeripes Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 75, October 1933, 

 p. 302, figs. 6-14. 



Upper Oligocene (Brule formation) : Near Torrington, Goshen 

 County, Wyoming (type locality) ; 12 miles northwest of Crawford, 

 Nebraska. 



Bathornis cursor Wetmore 



Bathornis cursor Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 75, October 1933, 

 p. 310, figs. IS-19. 



Upper Oligocene (Brule formation) : Near Torrington, Goshen 

 County, W^yoming. 



Bathornis geographicus Wetmore 



Bathornis geographicus Wetmore, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. loi, No. 14, 

 May II, 1942, p. 3, figs. 5-13. 



Upper Oligocene (Upper Brule formation, Protoceras-Leptau- 

 chenia beds) : 25 miles southeast of Scenic and 6 miles east of Rocky- 

 ford, Washington County, South Dakota. 



^2 Howard (Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 551, Jan. 25, 1946, pp. 182-183) 

 places all Fulica records from Fossil Lake, Oregon, under this name. She con- 

 siders minor the Pleistocene ancestor of modern Fulica americana, listing it as 

 Fulica americana minor, the relationship indicated by the trinomial expressing 

 distribution through geologic time and not the geographic range of two sub- 

 species existing simultaneously. 



