160 BULLETIlSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Medium-sized Scolopacinse (wing about 117-146 mm., in North 

 American species) with lower portion of tibia naked, tarsus shorter 

 than middle toe with claw, culmen longer than middle toe with 

 claw, and color-pattern of pileum longitudinal (two broad lateral 

 stripes of blackish and a narrow median stripe of buff. 



Bill much longer than head (usually as long as or longer than tarsus 

 and middle toe), straight, slightly tapering in lateral but not in ver- 

 tical profile, with base of culmen ascending; in vertical profile with 

 edges parallel nearly to tip, where depressed and slightly expanded, 

 the expanded portion minutely punctulate and with a median shallow 

 depression or groove; nasal groove distinct, extending to or slightly 

 beyond base of distal punctulate portion; depth of bill at base equal 

 to about one-seventh to one-tenth the length of exposed culmen; 

 nostril basal or subbasal (scarcely in contact with loral feathering), 

 rather small, longitudinal, elliptical or linear. Wing ample, the 

 longest primaries exceeding distal secondaries by nearly half the 

 length of wing, the tips of tertials falling considerably short of tips 

 of longest primaries; outermost primary longest, but sometimes 

 scarcely longer than second. Tail between one-third and one-half 

 as long as wing, more or less rounded; rectrices 14-16,^ more or less 

 bowed or incurved, with rounded tips. Tibia with lower portion 

 bare for a greater or less extent; tarsus longer than middle toe without 

 claw (but shorter than middle toe with claw), scutellate anteriorly 

 and posteriorly, but scutella of planta tarsi much smaller than 

 those of the acrotarsium; lateral toes much shorter than middle toe, 

 the outer decidedly longer than the inner one; claws moderately 

 developed, moderately curved and sharp; no web between toes at 

 base. 



Ilomoscolopax Mathews, Bkds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 291, in text. 



(Type, by original designation, Gallinago imperialis Sclater.) {'O/xos, the 



same, \ike-\- Scolopax.) 

 Neospilura Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 293, in text. 



(Type, by original designation, Gallinago solitaria Hodgson.) (Neos, new+ 



Spilura. 

 Eugallinago Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 294, in text. 



(Type, by original designation, Gallinago macrodadyla Bonaparte.) (ED, 



\xeW^ Gallinago.) 

 Odurella Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 294, in text. (Type, 



by original designation, Gallinago brasiliensis Swainson.) (Odura {o)5ri, a song; 



odpv, tail) -\-ella.) 

 Macrodura Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 294, in text. 



(Type, by original designation, Gallinago nobilis Sclater.) (MoKpoj, large+ 



Odura.) 

 Subspilura Mathews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 295, in text, 300. 



(Type, by original designation, Gallinago megala Swinhoe,) (Sub, under-|- 



Spiluru.) 

 & In North American species, at least. 



