442 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Lophortyx calif omica (Shaw). California Quail. 



Tetrao californiais Shaw, in Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Misc., IX, 1798, 

 text to pi. 345, 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Hawver Cave, Eldorado County, 

 Carpinteria, McKittrick, and upper San Pedro formation, San Pedro, 

 California. 



Genus OREORTYX Baird. 



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

 R. R. Pac, IX, 1858, xxi, xlv, 638, 642. Type, by orig. desig., Ortyx 

 pida Douglas. 



Oreortyx picta (Douglas). Pliuned Quail. 



Ortyx pida Douglas, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., XVI, Pt. i, 1829, 143. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Potter Creek and Samwel Caves, 

 Siiasta County, and Hawver Cave, Eldorado County, California. 



Family PHASIANIDAE. Pheasants. 



Genus PHASIANUS Linnaeus.^ 



Phasianus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 158. Type, by tau- 

 tonymy, Phasianiis colchicus Linnaeus. 



Phasianus alfhfldae Shufeldt. 



Phasiamis alfhildae Shufeldt, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci., XIX, Feb., 

 1915, 71. 



Geologic age uncertain: 100 feet below horizon of Haystack Butte, Haystack 

 Mountain, Wyoming. 



Phasianus roberti Stone. 



Phasianus roberti Stone, Auk. XXXII, No. 3, July (June 29), 1915, 376. 



Upper Oligocene (Middle John Day) : Parilina Creek, six miles from junction 

 with Beaver Creek, Oregon. 



Phasianus mioceanus Shufeldt. 



Phasianus mioceantis Shufeldt, Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci., XIX, 

 Feb., 1915, 60, pi. xiii, figs. 94, 96. 

 Miocene: Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluff, Nebraska. 



1 Allocations of the following species to the Old Word genus Phasianus fol- 

 lows the usage of the original describers, and is subject to verification. 



