634 ^- W. SHUFELDT 



There have not been many fossil forms of ralline birds described 

 for North America up to the present time, while typical gallinaceous 

 species are, as I have said, by no means rare. Over twenty years 

 have passed since I described Crecoides oshornii, a species I then 

 considered as being related to the genus Crex among the Rallidae.^ 

 No fossil gallinules have been found anywhere apparently, the 

 nearest form being Porphyria mackintoshi, from the Pleistocene of 

 Queensland, Australia, a specimen which I have not seen.^ The 

 fossil remains of several extinct forms of Notornis, however, have 

 been described, and about five species of Fulica, from various and 

 widely separated parts of the world, one of which is from the 

 Pleistocene of Oregon {F. minor Shuf.). 



' R. W. Shufeldt, Jour. Acad. Phila., XI (1892), 412. 

 = De Vis (p. 193, note). 



