52 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Superfamily PHASIANOIDEA : Grouse, Quails, Pheasants, and Turkeys 



Family TETRAONIDAE: Grouse and Ptarmigans 



Genus DENDRAGAPUS Elliot 



Dendragaptis Elliot, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 16, No. 1, 

 January-February (April 22,), 1864, p. 23. Type, by subsequent designa- 

 tion, Tetrao obscurus Say (Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, 1874). 



Dendragapus obscurus (Say) : Blue Grouse 



Tetrao obscurus Say, in Long, Exped. Rocky Mts., vol. 2, 1823, p. 14. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene: Samwel and Potter 

 Creek caves, Shasta County, California. 



Dendragapus lucasi (SnuFELDT)^^ 

 Pedioccctes lucasi Siiufeldt, Auk, vol. 8, No. 4, October 1891, p. 367. 

 Late Pleistocene : Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Dendragapus nanus (Siiufeldt) ^''^ 

 Pedioccctes nanus Shufeldt, Amer. Nat., vol. 25, No. 297, September 1891, 

 p. 821. 



Late Pleistocene : Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Genus BONASA Stephens 



Bonasa Stephens, in Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. 9, pt. 2, 1819, p. 298. Type, by 

 subsequent designation, Tetrao umbellus Linnaeus (A. O. U. Committee, 

 1886). 



Bonasa umbellus (Linnaeus) : Ruffed Grouse ''^ 



Tetrao umbellus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. i, 1766, p. 275. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Cave near Frankstown, 

 Pennsylvania ; Cumberland Cave, near Corriganville, Allegany County, 

 Maryland ; caves of Tennessee. Late Pleistocene : Potter Creek Cave, 

 Shasta County, California. 



Genus TYMPANUCHUS Gloger c^ 



Tytnpanuchus Gloger, Hand- und Hilfsbuch Naturg., 1842 (pp. 1-450, 1841), 

 p. 396. Type, by monotypy, Tetrao cupido Linnaeus. 



6T Assigned to Dendragapus by Howard, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 551, 

 Jan. 25, 1946, p. 180. 



68 Bonasa ceres Shufeldt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 32, Aug. 4, 191 3, 

 p. 299, pi. 55, figs. 18-20, pi. 56, figs. 45-72, from the Pleistocene of the fissure 

 beds of Arkansas is possibly a synonym. On p. 300 of the reference cited the 

 author alludes to it as Lagopus ceres. 



69 Records from Fossil Lake, Oregon, formerly placed under Tympamichus 

 pallidicinctus are now referred to Centrocercus urophasianus and Dendragapus 

 lucasi. See Howard, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 551, Jan. 25, 1946, p. 179. 



