92 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I3I 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene: McKittrick, Kern 

 County, Carpinteria, Santa Barbara County, and Rancho La Brea, 

 Los Angeles, California. 



Genus PICA Brisson 



Pica Brisson, Orn., 1760, vol. i, p. 30; vol. 2, p. 35. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Pica Brisson^ Corvus pica Linnaeus. 



Pica nuttallii (Audubon) : Yellow-billed Magpie 

 Corvus nuttallii Audubon, Birds Amer. (folio), vol. 4, 1836, pi. 362, fig. i. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene: Carpinteria, Santa 

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



Subfamily CORVINAE : Crows and Ravens 



Genus CORVUS Linnaeus 



Corviis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 105. Type, by tautonymy, 

 Corvus = Corvus corax Linnaeus. 



Corvus corax Linnaeus: Common Ravenna 



Corvus Corax Linnaf.us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. i, 1758, p. 105. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : Fossil Lake, Oregon ; 

 Hawver Cave, Eldorado County, Carpinteria, McKittrick, Rancho 

 La Brea, Los Angeles, and Playa del Rey (Palos Verdes sand), Los 

 Angeles County, California. Pleistocene: San Josecito Cave, Aram- 

 berri, Nuevo Leon. 



Corvus cryptoleucus Couch : White-necked Raven 



Corvus cryptoleucus Couch, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 7, No. 2, 

 May 20, 1854, p. 66. 



Modern form reported from late Pleistocene : McKittrick and 

 Rancho La lirea, Los Angeles, California. 



Corvus brachyrhynchos Breiim: Crow 



Corvus brachyrhynchos C. L. Brehm, Bcitr. Vogelkundc, vol. 2, 1822, p. 56. 



Modern form reported from Pleistocene: Seminole Field, Pinellas 

 County, Florida. Late Pleistocene : Potter Creek Cave, Shasta County, 

 and Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California."* 



23 Corinis shufcldti Sharing is a synonym of C. corax. See Howard, Carnegie 

 Inst. Washington Publ. 551, Jan. 25, 1946, p. 189. 

 2* Record formerly given from Carpinteria refers to C. caurinus. 



