FAMILY PHASIANIDAE 333 



toward this race. Rhynchortyx cinctus hypopius Griscom, described 

 from the eastern San Bias, through the additional specimens now 

 available is not separable, as the characters described from the 

 original series are merely those of individual variation, 



George N. Lawrence received a specimen from Panama marked 

 "Dec. 1879" with "Wallace" indicated as collector (A. M. N. H. 

 no. 45162) that apparently he believed to be new as the label bears 

 the name "Odontophorus ruhigenis" in Lawrence's handwriting. 

 Evidently he then found Salvin's description of the bird in the Ibis 

 for 1878, as he added this reference on the label. Richmond inad- 

 vertently quoted Lawrence's manuscript name with descriptive data 

 in comparing this specimen with one that he collected in eastern 

 Nicaragua, and so the name ruhigenis needs to be included in s)m- 

 onymy. 



Schonwetter (Handb. Ool., pt. 4, 1961, p. 224; pt. 5, 1961, p. 268) 

 describes 3 eggs of R. c. australis of northwestern Colombia as white 

 without markings, with measurements 29.6-30.0x23.5-23.8 mm. 

 The female taken at Armila, March 4, 1963 contained a nearly de- 

 veloped egg. 



[PHASIANirS COLCHICUS Linnaeus: Ring-necked Pheasant; Faisan Comtin 



Phasianus colchicus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 158. (Rion, 

 formerly Phasis, Georgian S. S. R.) 



In September 1959, Pablo Brackney released 80 pheasants on his 

 property at Palo Santo near El Volcan, Chiriqui. These were birds 

 about 5 months old that had been reared in a pheasantry near Panama 

 City. Corn had been planted as food and cover for them, and in 

 February and March of the following year many were present, as 

 I heard males crowing regularly. One nest had been found at that 

 time and the eggs taken and placed under a hen, as the area was 

 to be burned, but they were lost. On March 18, 1960 Mr. Brackney 

 saw one brood of young chicks. By 1963 they had multiplied and 

 had begun to spread into adjacent areas. But in 1965 I was told that 

 all had been shot by hunters. One had been killed about November, 

 1959, near Santa Clara, 25 kilometers west toward Costa Rica.] 



[Family NUMIDIDAE : Guineafowl ; Gallinas de Guinea 



The seven living species of this family are native in Africa, in- 

 cluding Madagascar and the Cape Verde Islands, with one extending 

 to southwestern Arabia. 



