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dd. Tail decidedly longer than tarsua (nearly half as long as wang), graduated 

 or strongly rounded; exposed culmen not more than six-tenths as long as 



tarsus Bartramia (p. 378). 



cc. Bill decurved distally. (Numeniese.) 

 d. Bill longer than tarsus udth middle toe, usually (?) more than half as long as 

 wing, longer than tail; size larger (exposed culmen more than 100, tarsus 



more than 65, usually more than 75, mm.) Numenius (p. 385). 



dd. Bill shorter than tarsus with, middle toe, less than half as long as vcing, not 



longer than tail; size smaller (exposed culmen less, usually much less, 



than 100, tarsus loss than 65 mm.)'. 



e. Tarsus more than twice as long as middle toe A\'ith claw; lull more slender, 



its depth of base equal to only about one-tenth the length of exposed 



culmen Zarapita (extralimital).« 



ee. Tarsus less than twice as long as middle toe with claw; bill stouter, its 



depth at base equal to about one-seventh the length of exposed culmen. 



/. Bill stouter, less attenuated terminally, more strongly arched, with 



exposed culmen as long as or longer than tarsus and first two phalanges 



of middle toe; larger (exposed culmed more, usually much more, than 



65, tarsus more than 50 mm.) Phaeopus (p. 395). 



ff. Bill more slender, more attenuated terminally, less strongly (sometimes 

 hardly percepti!)ly) arched, the exposed culmen shorter than tarsus 

 and first phalanx of middle toe; smaller (exposed culmen not more 

 than 60, tarsus not more than 45 mm.) Mesoscolopax (p. 410). 



Genus SCOLOPAX Linnaeus. 



Scolopaxb LiNN.EUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 145. (Type, as designated by 



Gray, 1840, and by elimination, S. rusticola Linnseus.) 

 Rvsticola (not of Houttuyn, 1770) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Xat., iii, 1816, 



348; Analyse, 1816, 56. (Type, by tautonymy, R. vulgaris Vieillot =i"?coZopax 



rusticola Linngeus.) 

 Rusticula (emendation) Vieillot, Xouv. Diet. d'Hi.st. Xat., xxiv, 1818, 124. 

 (?) Nesoscoiopax S.\lv.\dori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Geneva, XA-iii, 331. (Type, by 



original designation, Scolopax rocJaissenii Schlegel.) 

 (?) Parascolopax c Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 290, in 



text. (Type, by original designation, Scolopax saturata Hodg-son.) 



Very large ScolopacinsB (wing 179-200 mm.) with tibia completely' 

 feathered, tarsus shorter than middle toe with claw, and outer 

 primaries normal. 



Bill long, straight, tapering in lateral but not in vertical profile, 

 its depth at base equal to about one-seventh the length of exposed 

 culmen, the latter about as long as tarsus and middle toe v.ith claw, 

 decidedly less than half as long as wing; nasal groove broad, extending 

 nearly to tip of maxilla, the latter, especially on tomia, decurved 

 terminally; nostril sub-basal, elliptical, longitudinal. Wing large 

 and broad, the longest primaries exceeding distal secondaries by 

 more than one-third the length of wing; outermost primary longest, 



a Zarapita Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 2. May 2, 1913, 168. Type, by original 

 designation and monotypy, Xumenius tenuirostris Vieillot. Zarapeia Mathews 

 (ibid., p. 169). (From Zarapito, Spanish name of a curlew; Mathews.) 



b (nio\6wa^, a large, snipe-like bird. (Mathews.) 



c Hapa, besides -f Scolopax. 



