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Gallinago drummondii Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 52; Compt. 
Rend., xliii, 1856, 579. 
G[allinago] drummondii Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1846, 583. 
Scolopax douglasii Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 400 (descr. in footnote; 
Columbia River) —Nurratt, Man. Orn. U.S. and Can., Water Birds, 1834, 
191. 
Scolopar paludosa “Gmf{elin].”” Lesson, Traité d’Orn., 1831, 556, part. 
Scolopax americanus Haprietp, Zoologist, xxi, 1863, 8446 (Canada; new name 
for Scolopaz wilsont). 
Gallinago ? ScraTer and Satvin, Ibis, 1859, 228 (Guatemala). 
Genus LIMOSA Brisson. 
Limosa Brisson, Orn., v, 1760, 261. (Type, by tautonymy, [Limosa] limosa 
Brisson=Scolopax limosa Linneus.) 
Rusticola Hourtuyn, in Nozeman, Nederl. Vogelen, i, 1770 (p. 1 of inhoud). 
(Type, by monotypy, R. grutto Houttuyn=Scolopax limosa Linnzus.) 
Limicula (not of Leach, 1816) Vierttor, Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., iii, 1816, 245; 
Analyse, 1816, 56. (Type, Limosa melanura Leisler=Scolopax limosa Lin- 
nzus.) 
Very large Eroliine (?) (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 
recurved 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 antie on 
same vertical line, or the latter slightly 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, 
40017—19—Bull. 50, pt 8——13 
