56 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Cyrtonyx cooki Wetmore 



Cyrtonyx cooki Wetmore, Condor, vol. 36, No. i, Jan. 15, 1934, p. 30, fig. 5. 



Upper Miocene (Upper Sheep Creek beds) : 17 miles south of 

 Agate, Sioux County, Nebraska. 



Cyrtonyx tedfordi Miller ''^ 



Cyrtonyx tedfordi L. H. Miller, Condor, vol. 54, No. 5, Sept. 22, 1952, p. 298, 

 fig. 2. 



Upper Miocene (Barstow formation) : Lake bed horizon, near 

 Barstow, California. 



Subfamily PHASIANINAE: Old World Partridges and 

 Pheasants 



Genus PHASIANUS Linnaeus 



Phasianus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 158. Type, by tau- 

 tonymy, Phasianus colchicus Linnaeus. 



Phasianus alfhildae Siiufeldt^^ 



Phasianus alfhildae Siiufeldt, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts Sci., vol. 19, 

 February 191S, p. 7i- 



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

 Haystack Mountain, Wyoming. 



Genus ARCHAEOPHASIANUS Lambrecht 



Archaeophasianus Lambrecht, Handb. Palaeorn., 1933, p. 438. Type, by sub- 

 sequent designation, Phasianus roberti Stone (Brodkorb, 1952). 



Archaeophasianus roberti (Stone) 



Phasianus roberti Stone, Auk, vol. 32, No. 3, July (June 29), 1915, p. 376. 



Lower Miocene (Middle John Day formation) : Paulina"* Creek, 

 6 miles from junction with Beaver Creek, Crook County, Oregon. 



? Archaeophasianus mioceanus (Shufeldt)^* 



Phasianus mioceanus Siiufeldt, Trans. Connecticut Acad. Arts Sci., vol. 19, 

 February 1915, p. 60, pi. 13, figs. 94, 96. 



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



■^2 Allocation in this genus tentative. 



^3 Allocation of this species to the Old World genus Phasianus follows the 

 usage of the original describer, and is subject to verification. 



■f* Given as "Parilina" in the original place of publication, through an error 

 in reading the field label. 



''^ Described from fragmentar>' humerus and femur from the two separate 

 localities listed. Probably a composite, with neither bone coming from a bird of 

 this family. Assigned to Archaeophasianus by Lambrecht. 



