NO. 5 CHECK-LIST OF FOSSIL BIRDS — WETMORE IO3 



Genus EOPTERYX Meyer 



Eopteryx Meyer, Ber. Senckenberg. Nat. Ges. Frankfurt am Main, 1887, 

 p. 14. Type, by monotypy, Eopteryx mississippiejisis Meyer. 



Eopteryx mississippiensis Meyer -^ 



Eopteryx mississippiensis Meyer, Ber. Senckenberg. Nat. Ges. Frankfurt am 

 Main, 1887, p. 14, pi. 2, figs. 22a-22c. 



Eocene : Jackson, Mississippi. 



(Genus uncertain) 

 Falco falconellus Shufeldt so 

 Falco falconella Shufeldt, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts Sci., vol. 19, Feb- 

 ruary 1915, P- 40, pl. 15, figs. 139-143- 

 Eocene (Bridger formation) : Dry Creek?, Wyoming. 



Genus FONTINALIS Lesquereux 



Fontinalis Lesquereux, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., vol. 8, 1883, p. 135. 

 Type, by monotypy, Fontinalis pristin Lesquereux. 



Fontinalis pristina Lesquereux ^i 



Fontinalis pristina Lesquereux, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Terr., vol. 8, 1883, 

 p. 135, pl. 21, fig. 9. 



Oligocene (Florissant lake beds) : Florissant, Colorado. 



Genus HEBE Shufeldt 



Hebe Shufeldt, Journ. Geol., vol. 21, October-November (Nov. i), 1913, 

 p. 644. Type, by monotypy, Hebe schucherti Shufeldt. 



Hebe schucherti Shufeldt ^2 



Hebe schucherti Shufeldt, Journ. Geol., vol. 21, October-November (Nov. i), 

 1913, p. 644, fig. 10, a, b. 



Eocene : ^^ 5 miles west of Green River, Wyoming. 



28 Described from a fragmentary vertebra. 



3° Not a falcon ; relationships doubtful. See Wetmore, A., Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vol. 84, Nov. 3, 1936, pp. 77-78. 



^1 Type a fragment of a fossil feather, described originally as a species of 

 moss. See Knowlton, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 51, Nov. 24, 1916, p. 245, and 

 Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Z06I., vol. 67, May 1925, p. 184. Possibly of Oligo- 

 cene age. 



32 Said to be a passeriform bird with four notches in the posterior border of 

 the sternum; of uncertain affinity. Hebe Shufeldt, 1913, is preoccupied by Hebe 

 Risso, 1826 (applied to a genus of crustaceans), so that should the form here 

 under consideration be definitely identified it may require a new generic appella- 

 tion. There is no necessity for action at this time in view of its uncertain rela- 

 tionships. 



33 From data furnished by Dr. M. R. Thorpe, of the Peabody Museum, Yale 

 University. 



