SNIPES AND WOODCOCKS. 
unrecognisable MS. -name. It is given in the synonymy of stenura in the 
Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XXIV., p. 619, as “ fide Boie, Isis 1826, p. 979,” 
probably following Seebohm, but I can find no reason whatever for such a 
statement. Boie’s only reference is as quoted above, and stenura was not 
described until four years later. However, Seebohm correctly cites galUnago 
as the type of Telmatias, so he cannot be blamed for Sharpe’s mistake. 
Kaup, in the Skizz. Entwick-Gesch. Nat. Syst. 1829, p. 117, used Telmatias 
Boie for galUnago Linne alone, and introduced : — 
(p. 118) Lymnocryptes for 8 . gallinula, 
(p. 119) Pelorychus „ hrekmii, and 
(p. 121) Enalius „ sabini. 
The latter two pass absolutely into the synonymy of GalUnago, the species 
cited, hrehmii and sabini having been proved to be simply aberrations of 
galUnago. 
Though using Kaup’s genus-name Limnocryptes (rect. Lymnocryptes), and 
quoting Pelorychus (as Pelorynchus) in the synonymy of GalUnago, Sharpe 
omitted Enalius though noting Enalius sabinii in the specific synonymy. 
Brehm’s Philolimnos {Vogel. Deutschl., p. 622, 1831) is an absolute synonym 
of Lymnocryptes Kaup. Hodgson, in the Journ. As. 8oc. Bengal, Vol. VI., 
p. 491, 1837, suggested Nemoricola as a genus-name for his own Scolopax 
netnoricola ; and Gray, in the List Genera Birds, Appendix, 1842, p. 14, fixed 
the name to this species. 
In the List Genera Birds 1840, p. 70, Gray introduced Romoptilura for 
undulata Boddaert, but in the second edition, 1841, he replaced his own name 
by Xylocota “ Bp. 1839,” noting, in addition to undulata Boddaert as the 
typical species, sabini Vigors. 
As author of the combination Xylocota sabini, “ Bp.” is given — whereas 
he cites himself as first using the combination Xylocota undulata. T his is 
rather important in view of the complications around the name Xylocota. 
In the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, Vol. XXIV., the 
earhest reference to Xylocota is given as “ Bp., C.R. Vol. XLI., 1855, p. 660,” 
and the type species is quoted as jamesoni. But in the place, the new species 
Xylocota jamesoni is only described, with no intimation that the generic name 
was new or had not been previously utihsed. 
Eichmond {Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XXXV., 1908, p. 648) has given 
the Gray-1841 reference as the earliest note of Xylocota he has traced. 
I have however noted that it is included in a fist of genera of birds given 
by Gray in the Synopsis Contents British Museum, 42nd ed., p. 104, 1840, 
where it appears only as a ncnnen nudum. 
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