ORDER CHARADRIIFORMES. Ill 



Genus LYMNOCRYPTES Boie. 



Lymnocryptes Boie, Brehm's Omis, II, 1826, 127. Type, by monotypy, 

 [Scolopax] gallinula [Linnaeus] =<ScoZopax minima Brunnich. 



• Lymnocryptes minimus (Brunnich). European Jack Snipe. [230.2.] 



Scolopax Minima Brunnich, Orn. Borealis, 1764, 49. (E Christiansoe 

 [Island, Denmark].) 



Range. — Breeds in Lapland, Finland, Poland, Russia, and Siberia and 

 rarely in Germany and the Baltic coimtries. In winter south to the Canaries, 

 northern Africa, India, China, and Japan. Casual in the Faroes, Madeira, 

 Pribilof Islands, Alaska (St. Paul Island, spring of 1919),' and Labrador 

 (Makkovik, December 24, 1927). ^ 



Subfamily NUMENIINAE. Curlews, Yellow-legs, and Allies. 



Genus NUMENIUS Brisson. 



Numenius Brisson, Orn., 1760, I, 48; V, 311. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Numenius Brisson = Scolopax arquata Linnaeus. 



Numenius americanus americanus Bechstein. Long-billed Curlew. [264.] 



Numenius americanus Bechstein, in Latham, Allgem. Ueb. Vogel, IV, 

 Pt. ii, 1812, 432. (New York.) 



Range. — Breeds in Utah, southern Idaho, and eastern Nevada; formerly in 

 southern Wisconsin, Iowa, northern Illinois, eastern Nebraska, and eastern 

 Kansas. Winters from central California and southern Arizona south to 

 Guatemala, and formerly on the Atlantic coast from South Carolina to Florida, 

 Louisiana, and Texas. Formerly a regular migrant north to Massachusetts, 

 now a straggler east of the Mississippi. Casual in the West Indies. 



Numenius americanus occidentalis Woodhouse. Northern Curlew. [264a.] 



Numinius [sic] occide7italis Woodhouse, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, 

 No. 6, Nov.-Dec, 1852 [Feb. 7, 1853], 194. (near Albuquerque, New 

 Mexico.) 



Range. — Breeds from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and eastern 

 British Columbia (formerly Vancouver Island) south to Oregon, Montana, 

 Wyoming, and South Dakota. Winters south to southern California, New 

 Mexico, and northern Mexico.^ 



1 Hanna, Condor, XXII, 1920, 173. 



2 Austin, Auk, XLVI, 1929, 209. 



^ This bird has also been named A^. a. parvus Bishop (Auk, XXVII, 1910, 59), 

 on the assumption that Woodhouse's name did not apply to it. 



