FOSSIL BIRDS. 441 



Palaealectoris incertus Wetmore. 



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

 152, figs. 51-53. 



Lower Miocene: Agate fossil quarry, near Agate, Sioux County, Nebraska. 



Genus PALAEOPHASIANUS Shufeldt. 



Palaeophasiamts Shufeldt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XXXII, Art. 16, 

 Aug. 4, 1913, 291. Type, by monotypy, Palaeophasianus meleagroides 

 Shufeldt. 



Palaeophasianus meleagroides Shufeldt. 



Palaeophasianus meleagroides Shufeldt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXXII, Art. 16, Aug. 4, 1913, 291, pi. LVIII, figs. 81-84, 86-88. 



Eocene (Wasatch ^ and Bridger) : Elk Creek, Big Horn Basin, and Henry's 

 Fork, Wyoming. 



Family PERDICIDAE. Partridges and Quails. 

 Subfamily ODONTOPHORINAE. American Quails. 



Genus COLINUS Goldfuss. 



Colinus Goldfuss, in Schubert, Handbuch Naturg., Ill, (Zool.) Abth. ii, 

 1820, 220. Type, by monotypy, Perdix mexicanus, Caille de la Louisi- 

 ana, PI. Enl. 149 = Tetrao virginianioi Linnaeus. 



Colinus virginianus (Linnaeus). Bob-white. 



Tetrao virginianus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 161. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Melbourne, and 

 cavern deposits near Lecanto, Florida; caves of Tennessee. 



Colinus eatoni Shufeldt. 



Colinus eatoni Shufeldt, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci., XIX, Feb., 1915, 

 70, pi XIII, fig. 103. 



Geologic age uncertain: Western Kansas. 



Genus LOPHORTYX Bonaparte. 



Lophartyx Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List. 1838, 42. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Tetrao califoriiicus Shaw (Gray, 1840). 



Described from specimen from the Wasatch of Elk Creek. 



