Contributions to avian paleontology / by R.W. Shufeldt.
- Robert Wilson Shufeldt
- Date:
- 1913
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Contributions to avian paleontology / by R.W. Shufeldt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![CONTRIBUTIONS TO AVIAN PALEONTOLOGY. BY R. W. SHUFELDT. I. The Status of Extinct Meleagridae.1 Plate III. Up to the present time, there have been but three species of fossil Meleagridae described and recorded, and these are correctly listed — in so far as their names go — on page 388 of the third edi- tion of the A. 0. U. Check-List of North American Birds. Two of these, namely M. antiqua and M. celer, were described by Marsh,— the former being from the Oligocene (White River) of Oregon [?], and the latter from the Pleistocene of New Jersey. It may be of interest, but surely of no importance, that Marsh also described other fossil remains of a bird as M. altus from the “Post-pliocene” of New Jersey, which has since been discovered to be but a synonym of Meleagris superba of Cope. M. superba is the third species listed in the A. O. U. Check-List, and is said to have come from the Pleistocene of New Jersey. On 1 The Illustrated. Outdoor World and Recreation of New York City will soon publish in serial form a “History of the North American Turkeys” by E. A. Mcllhenny, to appear as a book later on. The present article forms, in part, one of the chapters on Prehistoric Turkeys.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22439079_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
