70 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Genus PALOSTRALEGUS Brodkorb 



Palostralcgus Brodkorb, Florida Geol. Surv. Rep. Invest. No. 14, November 

 1955. P- 19- Type, by original designation, Palostralcgus sulcatiis Brod- 

 korb. 



Palostralegus sulcatus Brodkorb 



Palostralcgus sulcatus Brodkorb, Florida Geol. Surv. Rep. Invest. No. 14, 

 November 1955, p. 20, fig. 18. 



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

 Florida. 



Family CHARADRIIDAE : Plovers, Turnstones, and Surfbirds 



Subfamily CHARADRIINAE: Plovers 



Genus CHARADRIUS Linnaeus 



Charadr'ms Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 150. Type, by tau- 

 tonymy, Charadrius hiaticula Linnaeus. 



Charadrius sheppardianus Cope 



Charadrius sheppardianus Cope, Bull. Geol. Geogr. Surv. Terr., vol. 6, No. i, 

 Feb. II, 1 881, p. 83. 



OHgocene (Florissant lake beds) : Florissant, Colorado."" 



Charadrius vocif erus Linnaeus : Killdeer 



Charadrius vocijerus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 150. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : McKittrick, Kern 

 County, and Rancho La Brca, Los Angeles, California. 



Genus EUPODA Brandt 



Eiipoda J. F. Brandt, in Tchihatchev, Voy. Sci. Altai Orient., 1845, p. 444. 

 Type, by monotypy, Charadrius asialicus Pallas. 



Eupoda montana (Townsend) : Mountain Plover 



Charadrius montatius J. K. Townsend, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 7, pt. 2, Nov. 21, 1837, p. 192. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene: McKittrick, Kern 

 County, California. 



8" Generic and subfamily allocation tentative, particularly since the Florissant 

 beds now are held to be Oligocene rather than Miocene by most paleontologists. 



