102 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Genus PASSERELLA Swainson 



Passerella Swainson, Nat. Hist, and Class. Birds, vol. 2, July i, 1837, p. 288. 

 Type, by monotypy, Fringilla iliaca Merrem. 



Passerella iliaca (Merrem) : Fox Sparrow 



Fringilla iliaca Merrem, Avium Rar. Icones et Descrip., vol. 2, 1786, p. ^7, 

 pi. ID. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : Rancho La Brea, Los 

 Angeles, and Carpinteria, California, 



Genus MELOSPIZA Baird 



Melospisa Baird, in Baird, Cassin, and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. Surv. R. R. 

 Pac, vol. 9, 1858, pp. XX, XL, 440, 476. Type, by original designation, 

 Fringilla melodia Wilson. 



Subgenus MELOSPIZA Baird 

 Melospiza melodia (Wilson) : Song Sparrow 

 Fringilla melodia Wilson, Amer. Orn., vol. 2, 1810, p. 125, pi. 16, fig. 4. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : Rancho La Brea, Los 

 Angeles, California. 



INCERTAE SEDIS 

 Genus CIMOLOPTERYX Marsh =8 



Cimolopteryx Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 38, 1889, p. 83, foot- 

 note. Type, by monotypy, Cimolopteryx rarus Marsh. 



Cimolopteryx rarus Marsh 



Cimolopteryx rarus Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 38, July 1889, 

 p. 83, footnote. 



Upper Cretaceous (Lance formation) : Niobrara County, Wyoming. 



Cimolopteryx retusus Marsh 



Cimolopteryx retusus Marsh, Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 3, vol. 44, August 1892, 

 p. 175- 



Upper Cretaceous (Lance formation) : Niobrara County, Wyoming. 



28 Lambrecht, Handb. Palaeorn., 1933, pp. 586-587, lists this genus at the end 

 of the Ichthyornithiformes. He suggests that the two species belong in separate 

 genera, possibly in diflferent families. See also Shufeldt, Trans. Connecticut 

 Acad. Arts Sci., vol. 19, February 1915, pp. 11, 12, and 76. 



