54 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Palaeotetrix gilli Shufeldt 



Palaeotctrix gilli Shufeldt, Amer. Nat., vol. 25, No. 297, September 1891, 

 p. 821. 



Late Pleistocene : Fossil Lake, Oregon. 



Genus PALAEOPHASIANUS Shufeldt 



Palaeophasiamis Shufeldt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 32, art. 16, 

 Aug. 4, 1913, p. 291. Type, by monotypy, Palaeophasiamis meleagroides 

 Shufeldt. 



Palaeophasianus meleagroides Siiuff.ldt 



Palaeophasiamis meleagroides Shufeldt, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 

 32, art. 16, Aug. 4, 1913, p. 291, pi. 58, figs. 81-84, 86-88. 



Lower Eocene (Wasatch) : Elk Creek, Big Horn Basin (type lo- 

 cality). Eocene (Bridger) : Henry's Fork, Wyoming, 



Family PHASIANIDAE: Quails, Pheasants, and Peacocks 

 Subfamily ODONTOPHORINAE : American Quails 



Genus COLINUS Goldfuss 



Colimis Goldfuss, Handb. Zool., vol. 2, 1820, p. 220. Type, by monotypy, 

 Perdix mcxicamis, Caille de la Louisiane, PI. Enl. 149= Tetrao virgini- 

 anus Linnaeus. 



Colinus virginianus (Linnaeus) : Bobwhite 



Tetrao virginianus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 161. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Pinellas 

 County, Melbourne, and cavern deposits near Lecanto, Florida ; caves 

 of Tennessee. 



Colinus hibbardi Wetmore 



Colinus hibbardi Wetmore, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 30, pt. i. No. 9, 

 May 15, 1944. P- 96, figs. 4-8. 



Upper Pliocene (Rexroad fauna) : Meade County, Kansas, 



? Colinus eatoni Shufeldt ''^ 



Colimis eatoni Shufeldt, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts Sci., vol. 19, Febru- 

 ary 1915, p. 70, pi. I3> fig- 103. 



Geologic age uncertain : Western Kansas, 



^1 Relationship uncertain. From the published figure it may possibly be an 

 oscinine passeriform. 



