SNIPES AND WOODCOCKS. 
it, and to use for these the new generic name Odum. This name does 
not appear in the synonymy of Gallinago in the British Museum Catalogue, 
Vol. XXIV., and I have not noticed that any writer has fixed a type-species 
to this name. I therefore designate as type of Odum Meves — gallinago Linne, 
the typical species of Meves’s researches. 
In the Handl. Gen. Spec. Birds, pt. in., p. 53, 1871, Gray notes : — 
“ Polyptila, 1855 (oZm) Bp.” as a synonym of Spilura Bp. 1856, and 
“ Holmesia Bp. (MS.) 1855 ” as a synonym of Goenocorypha Gr. 1854. I have 
not traced these names further back than this entrance. 
The Woodcocks have few names to be considered : Scolopax Linne with 
rusticola as type, Busticola Viefilot 1816 being the only synonym ; Philohekt 
Gray 1841, with minor Gmelin as type and sole species — Microptera NuttaU 
1834 being preoccupied ; • and Neoscolopax Salvadori 1882 for rochusseni Schl. 
1 have therefore as available names : — 
Gallinago Koch 1816 . . Type S. gallinago Linne. 
Synonyms : 
Tehnatias Boie 1826, Pelorychus Kaup 1829, Enalius Kaup 1829, 
and Odura Meves 1858. 
Lymnocryptes Kaup 1829 . . Type S. gallinula Linne. 
Synonyms : 
Philolimnos Brehm 1831, and Ascalopax Keyserling und Blasius 1840. 
Nemoricola Hodgson 1837 
Homoptilura Gray 1840 
Synonym : 
Xylocota Gray 1841 
Goenocorypha Gray 1855 
Synonym : 
Holmesia Gray 1871. 
Spilura Bonaparte 1856 
Synonym : 
Polyptila Gray 1871. 
Type S. nemoricdki Hodgson. 
Type S. undulata Boddaert. 
Type S. undulata Boddaert. 
Type G. auchlandica Gray. 
Type S. stenura Bonaparte. 
Scolopax Linne 1758 . . . . Type S. rusticola Linne. 
Synonym : 
Busticola VieiQot 1816. 
Philohela Gray 1841 . . . . Type S. minor Gmelin. 
Synonym ; 
Microptera NuttaU 1834 (preoccupied). 
Neoscolopax Salvadori 1882 . . Type S. rochusseni Schlegel. 
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