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Gallinago drummondii Bonaparte, Geog. and Corap. List, 1838, 52; Compt. 



Rend.,xUii, 1856, 579. 

 G\allinag6\ drummondii Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 583. 

 Scolopax douijlasii Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 400 (descr. in footnote; 



Columbia River). — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 



191. 

 Scolopax paludosa "Gm[elin]." Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 556, part. 

 Scolopax americanus Hadfield, Zoologist, xxi, 1863, 8446 (Canada; new name 



for Scolopax wilsoni). 

 Gallinago ? Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 228 (Guatemala). 



Genus LIMOSA Brisson. 



Limosa Brisson, Orn., v, 1760, 261. (Type, by tautouymy, [Limosa] limosa 

 'Bn8Bon= Scolopax limosa Linnaeus.) 

 'Rusticola HouTTUYN, in Nozeraan, Nederl. Vogelen, i, 1770 (p. 1 of inhoud). 

 (Type, by monotypy, R. grutto H.outtuyn= Scolopax limosa Linnaeus.) 



Limicula (not of Leach, 1816) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., iii, 1816, 245; 

 Analyse, 1816, 56. (Type, Limosa melanura 'Leis\eT= Scolopax limosa Lin- 

 naeus.) 



Very large Eroliinse ( ?) (wing 184-225 mm.) with very long bill and 

 legs, bare portion of tibia longer than middle toe without claw, 

 middle toe (with claw) more than one-fifth as long as wing, and 

 claw of middle toe abnormal (long, thin, and straight or slightly 

 recm'ved terminally, and pectinate). 



Bill more than one-third (sometimes nearly half) as long as wing, 

 straight (not at all upturned), slightly depressed terminally; nostril 

 subbasal, longitudinally elliptical (rather narrower anteriorly) ; nasal 

 groove extending nearly to tip of maxilla; loral and malar antiae on 

 same vertical line, or the latter shghtly anterior to the former; mental 

 antia extending beyond posterior end of nostril, sometimes to middle 

 of nostril; anterior outline of frontal feathering U-or V-shaped at base 

 of culmen. Wing rather large, pointed, the longest primary^ (outer- 

 most) exceeding distal secondaries by more than half the length of 

 wing; tertials elongated, broad basally but tapering to the subacumi- 

 nate tip, the longest falling short of tip of third primary (from out- 

 side). Tail slightly less than two-fifths as long as wing, emarginate 

 (lateral rectrices longest); rectrices, 12. Tarsus about one-third as 

 long as wing, continuously transversely scutellate both anteriorly and 

 posteriorly; bare portion of tibia about as long as middle toe with claw, 

 also continuously transversely scutellate before and behind; toes long 

 and slender, the middle one, without claw, decidedly more than half as 

 long as tarsus; outer toe decidedly shorter than middle and decidedly 

 longer than inner toe; hallux slender, about as long (without claw) 

 as basal phalanx of outer toe; claw of middle toe elongated, straight 

 or even slightly recurved terminally, where thin and broad, the 

 inner edge pectinated ; a distinct web between outer and middle toes, 



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