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Arenaria melanocephala (Vigors). Black Turnstone. [284.] 



Strepsilas rnelanocephalus Vigors, Zool. Journ., IV, No. 15, Oct., 1828 

 [Jan., 1829] 356. (Northwest coast of [North] America.) 



Range. — ^Breeds along the coast of Alaska from Bering Straits south to the 

 Sitka district. Winters from southeastern Alaska south to the Cape district of 

 Lower California. Casual in northeastern Siberia. Individuals occur all 

 summer on the coasts of southeastern Alaska, British Columbia, and California. 



Family SCOLOPACIDAE. Woodcock, Snipe, and Sandpipers. 

 Subfamily SCOLOPACINAE. Woodcock and Snipe. 



Genus PHILOHELA Gray. 



Philohela Gray, List Gen. Birds, ed. 2, 1841, 90. Tj'pe, by orig. desig., 

 Scolopax minor Gmelin.^ 



Phil6hela minor (Gmelin). American Woodcock. [228.] 



Scolopax minor Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 661. Based on the 

 Little Woodcock Pennant, Arct. Zool., II, 463. (in Americae ... in 

 Carolinae . . . Noveboraci silvis humidis = New York.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern Manitoba, northeastern North Dakota, 

 northeastern Minnesota, southern Ontario, northern Michigan, southern 

 Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia south to eastern Colorado, southern 

 Kansas (formerly), southern Louisiana, and northern Florida. Winters from 

 southern Missouri, the Ohio Valley, and southern New Jersey (occasionally 

 northern Indiana and Massachusetts), south to Texas and central Florida. 

 Casual in Manitoba, Montana, Newfoundland, and Bermuda. 



Genus SCOLOPAX Linnaeus. 



Scolopax Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 145. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Scolopax rusticola Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



• Scolopax rusticola rusticola Linnaeus. European Woodcock. [227.] 



Scolopax Rusticola Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 146. (in 

 Europa = Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds from the Arctic Circle to Great Britain, Russia, Siberia, 

 and mountains of Europe and Asia; also in the Azores, Canary, and Madeira 



1 It is claimed that Rubicola "Vieill." Richardson (Wilson and Bona- 

 parte, Amer. Orn., Jameson ed.. Ill, 1831, 98) should replace Philohela, but 

 on the other hand there is no evidence that it was intended as a new name and 

 it seems an obvious misprint for Rusticola, a name applied to the European 

 Woodcock. 



