110 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



islands. Winters in Great Britain, southern Europe, northern Africa, China, 

 and India. Occasional in eastern North America from southern Quebec and 

 Newfoundland to Virginia; accidental in Greenland. [A closely allied race 

 occurs in the Eiu Iviu Islands.] 



Gentis CAPELLA Frenzel. 



Capella Frenzel, Beschr. Vogel und Eyer Wittenberg, 1801, 58. Type, 

 by monotypy, Scolopax coelestis Frenzel = Scolopax gallincKjo Lin- 

 naeus, 



• Capella gallinago gallinago (Linnaeus). European Snipe. [229.] 



Scolopax Gallinago Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 147. (in 

 Europa = Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds in Great Britain, northern Europe, and Siberia to latitude 

 70°, and in mountains of Europe and Asia. Winters in Great Britain, southern 

 Europe, northern Africa, India, China, the Philippines, and Borneo. Casual 

 in Greenland,^ accidental in Labrador (Makkovik, December 24, 1927) ^ 

 and Bermuda.' [An allied race occurs in Iceland and the Faroes to which the 

 stragglers to America may be referable.] 



Capella delicata (Ord). Wilson's Snipe. [230.] 



Scolopax delicata Ord, in reprint Wilson, Amer. Orn., IX, 1825, ccxviii. 

 (Pennsylvania.) 



Range. — Breeds from western Alaska, northern Yukon, northern Mackenzie, 

 northern Manitoba, the Ungava Peninsula, New Brunswick, and New- 

 foundland south to southern California, northern Nevada, southern Colorado, 

 eastern South Dakota, northern Iowa, northern Illinois, northern Indiana, 

 central Ontario, and northwestern Pennsylvania. Winters from southeastern 

 Alaska, southern British Columbia, southern Montana, New Mexico, central 

 Colorado, and southern Virginia through Central America and West Indies to 

 Colombia and southern Brazil; remains in winter casually and locally north to 

 Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, and Nova Scotia. Accidental in Greenland, 

 Hawaii, Bermuda, and Great Britain (Hebrides). 



• Capella media (Latham). Great Snipe. [230.1.] 



Scolopax Media Latham, General Sjoiops., Suppl., I, 1787, 292. (Lanca- 

 shire, [England].) 



Range. — Breeds from northern Germany, Russia, and Siberia north beyond 

 lat. 71°. Winters from the Mediterranean to South Africa; in migration from 

 Great Britain to Persia. Accidental in Canada (Hudson Bay).* 



1 Hagerup, Birds Greenland, 1891, 54. Schi0ler also records C. g. fdroeensis 

 (Brehm) from the east coast. 



2 Austin, Auk, XLVI, 1929, 209. 



' Jones, Nat. in Bermuda, 1859, 43. 



* Swainson, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., II, 1831, 501. 



