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Limicola falcinellus rogersi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec. vol. iii. p. 70, 1917 : 
Melville Island. 
Distr. —Winter visitor to Northern Australia (breeding in 
the Northern Hemisphere). 
Genus CAPELLA Frenzel*. 
Capella Frenzel, Beschr. Vog. u. Eier Wittenberg, p. 58, 1801. 
Type (by monotypy) : Gapellci ccelestis = Scolopax gallinago 
Linne. (For details cf. Austral Av. Bee. vol. iv. p. 130, 
Dec. 1920.) 
Capella gallinago (Linne). 
Distr. —North America, Europe, Asia to Hawaiian Islands. 
[Capella gallinago gallinago (L.). (24-G42.) 
Scolopax gallinago Linne, Syst. Nat. 10th ed. p. 147, 1758 : Sweden, 
Europe. (Fig. Dresser, vii. pis. 542-543.) 
Distr. —Europe to India. Extra-limital.] 
Capella gallinago delicata (Ord). 
Scolopax delicata Ord, in Wilson’s Amer. Orn. Reprint, vol. ix. p. 218, 
1825 : Pennsylvania. (Fig. Amer. Orn. pi. 47.) 
Scolopax wilsoni Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d'Ois. livr. G8, text 
to pi. 403, 1826 : America. 
Scolopax drummondii Swainson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. p. 400, 1832 : Rocky 
Mountains. 
Scolopax douglasii id. ib.: Columbia River. (Fig. Amer. Orn. vi. pi. 47.) 
Distr. —North America; Hawaiian Islands (casual). 
Genus SPILURA Bp. 
Spilura Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. xliii. p. 579, 
1850. Type (by original designation, p. 1023) : Spilura liors - 
Jleldii = Scolopax stenura lip. 
Spilura stenura (Bp.). (24-619.) 
Scolopax stenura Bonaparte, Ann. Stor. Nat. Bologna, vol. iv. fasc. 14, 
p. 335, 1830: Sunda Islands. 
Scolopax horsfieldii Gray, Zool. Miscell. p. 2, 1831 : China. 
Gallinago lieterura Hodgson, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 183G, p. 8: Nopal. 
Gallinago hiclavus Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, vol. vi. p. 491, 1837 : India. 
Scolopax pectinicauda Pealo, U.S. Explor. Exped., Birds, p. 227, 1848 : Singa¬ 
pore. 
Distr .—Breeding in Siberia (East) to the Yenesei Valley and 
migrating to China, Philippines, Java and Sumatra, and 
Celebes. 
N 2 
* For review of genus, cf. ‘Ibis,’ 192G, pp 477 etc. 
