440 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Genus PEDIOECETES Baird. 



Pedioecetes Baird, in Baird, Cassin and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. 

 R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xxi, xliv, [Pediocietes] 619, 625. Type, by orig. 

 desig., Tetrao phasianellm Linnaeus. 



Pedioecetes phasianellus (Linnaeus). Sharp-tailed Grouse. 



Tetrao Phasianellus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 160. 

 Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Pedioecetes lucasi Shufeldt. 



Pediocsetes lucasi Shufeldt, Auk, VIII, No. 4, Oct., 1891, 367. 

 Pleistocene; Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Pedioecetes nanus Shufeldt. 



Pediocsetes nanus Shufeldt, Amer. Nat., XXV, No. 297, Sept., 1891, 821. 

 Pleistocene; Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Genus CENTROCERCUS Swainson. 



Centrocercus Swainson, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.- 

 Amer., II, 1831 [1832], 358, 496. Type, by orig. desig., Tetrao uro- 

 phasianus Bonaparte. 



Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonaparte). Sage Hen. 



Tetrao urophasianus Bonaparte, Zool. Journ., Ill, No. 10, April-Sept., 

 1827, 213. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Genus PALAEOTETRIX Shufeldt. 



Palaeotetrix Shufeldt, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, IX, sig. 53, 

 Oct. 20, 1892, 415, Type, by monotypy, Palaeotetrix gilli Shufeldt. 



Palaeotetrix gflli Shufeldt. 



Palaeotetrix gilli Shufeldt, Amer. Nat., XXV, No. 297, Sept., 1891, 821. 

 Pleistocene; Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Genus PALAEALECTORIS Wetmore. 



Palaealectoris Wetmore, Condor, XXXII, No. 3, May 15, 1930, 152. 

 Type, by monotypy, Palaealectoris incertus Wetmore. 



