160 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Medium-sized Scolopacine (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. . 
Homoscolopar Maturws, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 291, in text. 
(Type, by original designation, Gallinago imperialis Sclater.) (‘Opés, the 
same, like+Scolopaz.) 
Neospilura Matuews, Birds Australia, ii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 293, in text. 
(Type, by original designation, Gallinago solitaria Hodgson.) (Néos, new+ 
Spilura. 
Eugallinago Matuews, Birds Australia, iit, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 294, in text. 
(Type, by original designation, Gallinago macrodactyla Bonaparte.) (E%, 
well+Gallinago.) 
Odurella MatuEws, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 294, in text. (Type, 
by original designation, Gallinago brasiliensis Swainson.) (Odura (&54, a song; 
odpt, tail)+ella.) 
Macrodura Maruews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 294, in text. 
(Type, by original designation, Gallinago nobilis Sclater.) (Maxpés, large+ 
Odura.) ; 
Subspilura Matuews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 3, Aug. 18, 1913, 295, in text, 300. 
(Type, by original designation, Gallinago megala Swinhoe.) (Sub, under-+ 
Spilura.) 
6 In North American species, at least. 
