NO, 2 FOSSIL AND SUBFOSSIL BIRDS — WETMORE 9 



range is from bones of late Wisconsin age found by John E. Guilday 

 and his associates in Lloyd's Rock Sinkhole in the New Paris Sink- 

 holes of Bedford County, western Pennsylvania. The present record, 

 about 120 miles to the south, is indication of a former range in the 

 late Pleistocene, and the period immediately following, through the 

 valleys of the northern Appalachian region. 



The bird is known also from deposits of Pleistocene age at Fossil 

 Lake, Ore. 



Family PHASIANIDAE: Pheasants, Quails 



Colimis znrginiamts (Linnaeus) : Bobwhite. 



One individual: Head of a left humerus; a right femur, nearly 

 complete. 



The bobwhite, of wide range in eastern North America, has been 

 found in the Pleistocene in Tennessee, and at several localities in 

 Florida. 



Family MELEAGRIDIDAE : Turkeys 



Meleagris gallopavo Linnaeus : Turkey. 



Two individuals: The shaft of a left coracoid; the broken distal 

 end of a left tarsometatarsus. The two differ so definitely in size that 

 it is evident they are from separate birds. 



Turkey bones have been recorded widely from Pleistocene time 

 in New Mexico, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Florida. 



Family GRUIDAE: Cranes 



Griis americana (Linnaeus) : Whooping Crane. 



One: Shaft and proximal end of a left coracoid. The bone is 

 fragmentary, with indications of the tooth marks of rodents, but 

 enough remains to indicate clearly that it is a crane, while the large 

 size identifies it as from the whooping crane. 



This species, now much reduced in numbers, was reported in 

 eastern United States in the early days of European settlement from 

 Nev/ York, New Jersey, and South Carolina. The present record is 

 the first from ancient time north of Florida, where bones have been 

 found in Pleistocene deposits at three localities. It is also the only 

 report of this bird within the boundaries of present-day Virginia. 



Family CHARADRIIDAE : Plovers 



Charadrius vociferus Linnaeus : Killdeer. 

 One: Distal end of a right humerus. 



