50 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Falco peregrinus Tunstall: Peregrine Falcon 

 Falco Peregrinus Tunstall, Orn. Brit., 1771, p. 1. 



Modern form reported from Late Pleistocene : Potter Creek Cave, 

 Shasta County, McKittrick, and Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, 

 California. 



Subgenus TINNUNCULUS Vieillot 



Tinmincnhis Vieillot, Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. i, 1807, p. 39. Type, by subse- 

 quent designation, Falco columbarhis Linnaeus (Walden, 1872). 



Falco columbarius Linnaeus : Pigeon Hawk 



Falco columbarius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 90. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene: McKittrick, and 

 Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Falco ramenta Wetmore 



Falco ramenta Wetmore, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 84, Nov. 3, 1936, p. 75, 

 fig. 14. 



Miocene (Sheep Creek formation) : Dawes County, Nebraska. 



Subgenus CERCHNEIS Bole 



Cerchncis Boie, Isis von Oken, vol. 19, Heft 10, October 1826, col. 970. Type, 

 by monotypy, Falco rupicolus Daudin. 



Falco sparverius Linnaeus : Sparrow Hawk 



Falco sparverius Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 90. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene : Cavern deposits near 

 Lecanto, Florida ; San Josecito Cavern, Aramberri, Nuevo Leon. Late 

 Pleistocene : Samwel and Potter Creek caves, Shasta County, McKit- 

 trick, Carpinteria, and Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, San Pedro 

 (Palos Verdes sand), Los Angeles County, California. 



Order GALLIFORMES: Megapodes, Curassows, Pheasants, 

 and HoATZiNS 



Suborder GALLI : Megapodes, Curassows, Grouse, and Pheasants 



Superfamily CRACOIDEA : Megapodes, Curassows, and Guans 



Family GALLINULOIDIDAE: Gallinuloides 



Genus GALLINULOIDES Eastman 



Gallinuloides Eastman, Geol. Mag., February 1900, p. 54. Type, by mono- 

 typy, Gallinuloides wyomingcnsis Eastman. 



