182 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Fedoa melanura Steruens, Shaw’s Gen. Zool., xii, 1824, 73. 
Totanus melanurus Sresoum, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1885, 162. 
Limosa jadreca Luacu, Syst. Cat. Mam., etc., Brit. Mus., 1816, 32 (Lincolnshire, 
‘ England). 
Limosa islandica Brenm, Vig. Deutschl., 1831, 627 (Wiesen Islands, rarely to 
Germany); Vogelf., 1855, 309. 
Genus VETOLA Mathews. 
Fedoa (not of Leach, 1816) StrrHENns, Shaw’s Gen. Zoology, xii, pt. i, 1824, 70. 
(Type, Fedoa americana Stephens=Scolopax fedoa Linnzus.) 
Vetola? Matuews, Birds Australia, iii, pt. 2, May 2,1913,191. (Type, by original 
designation, Scolopax lapponica Linneeus.) 
Very large Eroliine (?) (wing about 196-240 mm.) with bill at 
least one-third as long as wing, obviously but not conspicuously 
recurved, distinctly depressed for distal half; tarsus much less than 
one-third as long as wing (sometimes less than one-fourth as long); 
bare portion of tibia shorter than middle toe without claw, and with 
claw of middle toe normal (short, blunt, and nonpectinate). 
Bill slightly but distinctly recurved or upturned, distinctly de- 
pressed distally, much deeper than wide at base, the exposed culmen 
at least one-third as long as wing, and at least as long as tarsus and 
basal phalanx of middle toe; culmen distinctly ascending basally, 
with a more or less concave outline; nostrils sub-basal, longitudinally 
elliptical or linear, previous; nasal groove extending nearly to tip of 
bill; relative position of loral and malar anti variable; mental antia 
extending as far as base of nostril, sometimes farther; anterior outline 
of frontal feathering forming a more or less concave (sometimes 
nearly straight) line across base of culmen. Wing ample, pointed, 
the longest primary (outermost) exceeding distal secondaries by 
more (sometimes much more) than half the length of wing; tertials 
elongated, broad, with rounded tips (V. fedoa), narrower, subacumi- 
nate terminally (V. lapponica) or intermediate in shape (V. hema- 
stica), the longest falling short (for a greater or less distance) of tips 
of longest primaries. Tail less than two-fifths as long as wing, 
slightly emarginate or nearly truncate, the middle pair of rectrices 
sometimes very slightly projecting; rectrices, 12. Tarsus much less 
than one-third as long as wing (sometimes less than one-fourth as 
long), more or less continuously transversely scutellate anteriorly 
and posteriorly (the upper portion sometimes with scutella more or 
less broken or irregular); bare portion of tibia shorter than middle 
toe without claw, also more or less continuously scutellate before and 
behind; lateral toes decidedly shorter than middle toe, the outer 
very slightly to decidedly shorter than the inner; hallux slender, 
shorter than basal phalanx of middle or outer toe; web between 
a Vetola, 2 Venetian name. (Mathews.) 
