EASTMAN: FOSSIL AVIAN REMAINS FROM ARMISSAN 133 
Lower Pliocene. 
Phasianus archiaci Gaudry. Pikermi (Attica). 
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Gallus xsculapii 
Upper Pliocene. 
Gallus bravardi Gervais. Ardé, near Issoire (Puy-de-Dome). 
Pleistocene. 
Tetrao tetrix Linn. Kent’s Hole Tavern, near Torquay, Devonshire. 
“ —wrogallus Linn. Forestbed (?) of Norfolk. 
Lagopus albus (Gmelin). Cavern desposits near Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne). 
“ — mutus (Montin). oo co ‘e ie my 
Francolinus pictus (Jardine and Selby). Cavern deposits; Madras, India. 
Coturnix novx-zealandix Quoy and Gaimard. Superficial deposits; New Zealand. 
Tympanuchus pallidicinctus Ridgway. ie ot Oregon. 
Pediocextes phasianellus Linn. “ as “e 
“ nanus Shufeldt. 
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lucasii 
Polxotetrix gilli as “ fi a 
Meleagris superbus Cope. i re New Jersey. 
eg celer Marsh. te as i 
‘sp. indet. Caves of Pennsylvania. 
Gallus sp. Rare in Kuropean bone caverns. 
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It will be seen from the foregoing that although gallinaceous birds are plentiful 
in the late Tertiary, with the exception of the Pliocene, our knowledge of them in 
the Eocene is confined to but four genera. Two of these, futhermore, are known 
by a solitary individual each; and as Eocene bird remains are seldom well pre- 
served, it is clear that the discovery of fairly complete skeletons from this horizon 
is a matter of considerable interest and importance. The Carnegie Museum is there- 
fore to be congratulated upon having recently acquired two tolerable skeletons of 
Kocene birds from the lacustrine limestone of Armissan, near Narbonne (Aude), the 
existence of which has not hitherto been made known. 
These specimens form part of the famous Bayet Collection, presented by Mr. 
Andrew Carnegie to the Pittsburgh Museum in 1903; and through the unfailing 
courtesy of Dr. W. J. Holland, Director of the Museum, the present writer has been 
generously entrusted with their description. For this privilege he desires to express 
here his sincere thanks. 
