74 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Genus EROLIA Vieillot 



Erolia Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, p. 55. Type, by monotypy, Erolia variegata 

 Vieillot = Scolopax tcstacca Pallas. 



Erolia penepusilla Brodkorb 



Erolia penepusilla Brodkorb, Florida Geol. Surv. Rep. Invest. No. 14, No- 

 vember 1955, p. 23, fig. 21. 



Pliocene (Bone Valley formation) : Near Brewster, Polk County, 

 Florida. 



Erolia alpina (Linnaeus) : Dunlin 

 Tringa alpina Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 149. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene: McKittrick, Kern 

 County, California. 



Genus LIMNODROMUS Wied 



Lhnnodromus Wied, Beitr. Naturg. Brasil, vol. 4, Abt. 2, 1833, p. 716. Type, 

 by monotypy, Scolopax noveboracctisis Gmelin = Scolopax grisea Gmelin. 



Limnodromus griseus (Gmelin) : Dowitcher 

 Scolopax grisea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. i, pt. 2, 1789, p. 658. 



Modern form reported late Pleistocene : McKittrick, Kern County, 

 and Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. 



Genus MICROPALAMA Baird 



Micropalama Baird, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pac., vol. 9, 1858, pp. xxii, 

 xlvii, 714, 726. Type, by monotypy, Tringa himantoptis Bonaparte. 



Micropalama hesternus Wetmore 



Micropalama hesternus Wetmore, Proc. U. S. Nat. Alus., vol. 64, art. 5, Jan. 

 15, 1924, p. n, figs. 6-7. 



Upper Pliocene (lilancan) : 2 miles south of Benson, Arizona. 



Genus LIMOSA Brisson 



Limosa Brisson, Orn., 1760, vol. i, p. 48; vol. 5, p. 261. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Limosa Brisson = Scolopax limosa Linnaeus. 



Limosa vanrossemi Miller 



Limosa varvrossemi L. H. Miller, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 349, 

 August 1925, p. 116, pi. 6. 



Middle Miocene (Temblor, Turritella ocoyana zone) : Lompoc, 

 California. 



