SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS OF FOSSIL BIRDS. 823 



i-efcrred at first to the genus Cathartes, afterward provisionally to the genus Vultiir. As the 

 description and figures clearly indicate a bird generically distinct from Cathartes, and as tlie 

 improbability of the occurrence of a true Vulttir in North America is extreme, it is snggesteil 

 that this species be made the typo (jf a new genus, Palceohorus, based upon the characters 

 given Ijy the describer. 



GALLING (p. 571). 



MELEAGRIS ANTIQUUS. 



MekKf/ris antiqutis, Marsh, Am. Journ. Sci., ii, Aug., 1871, p. 126. — CouES, Key, 

 1872, p. 347. 



This species was nearly as large as the wild turkey (31. gdllipavo). The remains repre- 

 senting it were found in the Miocene of Colorado, and are preserved in the Yale Museum. 

 MELKAGRIS ALTUS. 



Meleagris alius, i\[AR,sii, Proc. Phila. Acad., Mar., 1870, p. 11. — Amer. Nat., iv, July, 

 1870, p. 317. — Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Oct., 1872, p. 260. — CouE.s, Key, 1872, p. 348. 



Meleagris sirperlus. Cope, Syn. E.xt. Batrach., etc., p. 239. 



•' Kepresented by pcirtions of three skeletons, of different ages, which belonged to liirds 

 about the size of the wild turkey, although projiortioually much taller. The tibia; and tarso- 

 metatarsal bones were, in fact, so elongated as to resemble those of wading birds." From the 

 Post-pliocene of New Jersey. Tlie remains are mostly in the Museum (jf Yale CoUege. 

 MELEAGRIS CELER 



Meleagris celer, Maksh, Am. Journ. Sci., Oct., 1872, p. 261. — CoUES, Key, 1872, p. 348. 



A species much smaller than the foregoing, but with legs of slender proportions. Also 

 from the P(jst-pliocene of New Jersey, and preserved in the Yale Bluseum. 



LIMICOL^ (p. 596). 



9 CHARADRIUS SHEPPARDIANUS. 



Charadrius shepparelianus, Cope, Bull. U. S. Gecd. Surv. Terr., vi, no. 1, Feb. 11, 1881, 

 pp. 83-85. —Amer. Nat., xv. Mar., 1881, p. 253. 



ALECTORIDES (p. 665). 



10. GRUS HAYDENI. 



Grus hagdeni, Marsh, Am. Journ. Sci., xlix, March, 1870, p. 214. — CouES, Key, 1573, 

 p. 34^. 



A species about as large as the sandhill crane (G. canadensis). From the Pliocene of 

 Nebraska. Remains ju-eserved in the Museum of the Philadelphia Academy. 



11. GRUS PROAVUS. 



Grus proavus, Marsh, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Oct., 1872, p. 261. — Coues, Key, 1872, 

 p. 348. 



This species was neaily as large as a sandhill crane. The remains representing it were 

 found in the Post-pliocene of New Jersey, and are now in the Yale Museum. 



12. ALETORNIS NOBILIS. 



Aletornis nobilis, Marsh, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Oct., 1872, p. 256. — Coues, Key, 1872, 

 p. 348. 



Nearly as laige as the preceding species. Found in the Eocene deposits of Wyoming, 

 and now in the Museum of Yale College. 



