72 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Subfamily SCOLOPACINAE: Woodcock and Snipes 



Genus CAPELLA Frenzel 



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

 monotypy, Scolopax coelcstis Frenzel =^ Scolopax gallinago Linnaeus. 



Capella gallinago (Linnaeus): Common Snipe »® 

 Scolopax GaUinago Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 147. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : Rancho La Brea, Los 

 Angeles, California. 



Capella anthonyi (Wetmore) 



Gallinago anthonyi Wetmore, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 33, Dec. 30, 

 1920, p. 78, pi. 2, figs. I, 2. 



Recent (extinct) : ^ Cave deposits in Cueva Catedral (type lo- 

 cality) and Cueva Clara, near Morovis, Puerto Rico. 



Subfamily TRINGINAE: Curlews, Yellowlegs, and Allies 



Genus NUMENIUS Brisson 



Numenius Brisson, Orn., 1760, vol. i, p. 48; vol. 5, p. 311. Type, by tau- 

 tonymy, Numenius Brisson = Scolopax arquata Linnaeus. 



Numenius americanus Beciistein: Long-billed Curlew 



Numenius americanus Bechstein, in Latham, AUgcm. Uebers. Vogel, vol. 4, 

 pt. 2, 1812, p. 432. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene: McKittrick, Kern 

 County, and Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Numenius borealis (Forster) : Eskimo Curlew 

 Scolopax borealis J. R. Forster, Philos. Trans., vol. 62, 1772, p. 431. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene (Kentuck locality) : 

 McPherson County, Kansas. 



Numenius phaeopus (Linnaeus) : Whimbrel 2 

 Scolopax Phaeopus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 146. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : Rancho La Brea, Los 

 Angeles, California. 



09 Capella delicata (Ord), Wilson's snipe, of the previous list. 

 1 Included here as it has not been found in living form, being known only 

 from bones. 

 ^Phaeopus hudsonicus (Latham), Hudsonian curlew of the previous list. 



