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Numenius — ? Gray, Cat. Birds Tropical Is., 1859, 50 (Marianne and Gil- 
bert Islands). 
Numenius phaeopus (not Scolopax pheopus Linnzeus) SCHLEGEL, Mus. Pays-Bas, 
v, no. 27 (Scolopaces), 1864, 93, part. 
Numenius australis (not of Gould) Doxz, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xii, 1869, 303 
(Hawaiian Islands). 
Niumenius] tibialis Lavarv (E. L. and E. L. C.), Ibis, 1882, 533 (Ansevata, New 
Caledonia).—TristraM, Ibis, 1882, 534. 
Genus MESOSCOLOPAX Sharpe. 
Mesoscolopat® Suarrz, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv, 1896, 371. (Type, by 
original designation, Numenius minutus Gould.) 
Medium-sized or rather large Scolopacide (wing 180-215 mm.) 
with the slender, slightly decurved, bill shorter than tarsus and first 
phalanx of middle toe and much shorter than tail; hallux much 
shorter than basal phalanx of middle toe, and primaries projecting 
beyond distal secondaries much farther than distance from tips of 
the latter to bend of wing. 
Bill slender, attenuated and slightly decurved distally, its narrow 
tip very slightly expanded; exposed. culmen shorter than tarsus 
and basal phalanx of middle toe, much shorter than tail; nostril 
subbasal, longitudinally linear (lit-like); nasal groove distinct for 
at least pasal half of maxilla, sometimes for two-thirds or more; 
malar antia posterior to latero-frontal antia, the mental antia about 
on line (vertically) with anterior end of nostril; frontal antia forming 
a very slight indentation (angular or shallowly concave) at base of 
culmen. Wing ample, pointed, the longest primary (outermost) 
exceeding distal secondaries by much more than half the length of 
wing; tertials elongated, subacuminate, but the longest falling far 
short of tip of longest primary (not extending beyond fourth, some- 
times not beyond sixth, primary, from outside); tarsus less than 
twice as long as middle toe without claw, the acrotarsium trans- 
versely scutellate, the planta tarsi transversely scutellate in YU. 
minutus, usually with rather large hexagonal scales (but sometimes 
more or less transversely scutellate) in M. borealis; bare portion of 
tibia as long as middle toe without claw, transversely scutellate before 
and behind in MM. minutus, with small hexagonal scales in front and 
larger ones behind in ¥. borealis; lateral toes decidedly shorter than 
middle toe, the outer slightly longer than the inner; hallux small, 
decidedly shorter than basal phalanx of middle toe; interdigital 
spaces webbed basally, the web between outer and middle toes 
decidedly shorter than basal phalanges of those toes, that between 
inner and middle toes still smaller (more deeply incised); all the 
anterior toes with a more or less distinct lateral tumid membrane 
(conspicuously developed in 4. borealis, indistinct in M. minutus). 
@ Méogos, middle; +Scolopar (cxoddrat, a woodcock). (Richmond.) 
