SNIPES AND WOODCOCKS. 
prohibits their inclusion in Scolopax, so that there is no course open save 
the proposal of new generic names, as I have shown Xylocota to be 
untenable. 
For G. stricMandi Gray I therefore propose the new genus 
CHUBBIA. The species cannot be compared with Oallinago, as the bill, 
legs, and feet are typically rusticoline ; comparisons have therefore to 
be made with Scolopax, from which it differs at sight in coloration, 
the biU is much longer, the wing is shorter, the metatarsus is of the 
same length though much stouter, the tail is composed of fourteen feathers. 
In structural proportions it agrees better with Parascolopax — though 
nothing like that genus in coloration — having the wing less than twice 
the length of the culmen but more than four times the metatarsus. 
Xylocota jaynesoni Bonaparte can be classed under Chuhhia. It agrees 
fairly with that genus, and differs little in coloration. The bill is more than 
half the length of the wing, which is less than four times the meta- 
tarsus. This agrees in structural proportions with Parascolopax, but 
the tail is composed of fourteen feathers and the coloration is quite 
different. 
The third species included by Gray in Xylocota, was the Gallinago 
imperialis of Sclater, which at once recalls Parascolopax by its coloration. 
Upon examination, the black and red markings are seen to be entirely 
different in character. Its bill, legs, and feet are typically rusticoline, 
and in its structural proportions its comes also close to Parascolopax, the 
culmen being more than half the length of the wing, which however 
is more than four times the length of the metatarsus. This would 
therefore agree better with Chuhhia, but the coloration is too different 
to allow the admission of this species into that genus. I consider 
that this species fully merits generic recognition, and therefore propose 
HOMOSCOLOPAX for G. imperialis Sclater alone. ' 
The group of small birds of which Gallinago aucTdandica Gray was 
first described, and for which he later introduced Goenocorypha, were 
classed by Sharpe under Gallinago, apparently in deference to the view 
that their coloration was more of the gaUinagine than rusticoline type. 
Otherwise their structure is typically rusticoline, and Iredale and I, in our 
“ Reference List of the Birds of New Zealand ” {Ihis 1913, pp. 261-262), 
revived Gray’s generic name Cmnocorypha for this group. They have very 
httle affinity indeed with Gallinago. 
I have shown that Homoptilura Gray is the correct genus-name for 
8. undulata Boddaert. This species combines all the gaUinagine features 
with a rusticoHne bill and immense size. It could be shortly described 
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