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SCOLOPACIDiE. 
Genus SUBSPILURA Math. 
Subspilura Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. iii. pt. 4, pp. 295, 300, 
Dee. 31st, 1913. Type (by original designation) : Gallinago 
vie gal a Swinhoe. 
Subspilura megala (Swinhoe). (24-G24.) 
Gallinago megala Swinhoe, Ibis, Oct. 1861, p. 343: Pekin, China. 
(Fig. Math. pi. 167.) 
Gallinago heterocerca Cabanis, Journ. fur Om. 1870. p. 235 (June no.) : Luzon. 
GaUmago australis oiveni Mathews, Nov. Zool. vol. xviii. p. 223, Jan. 31st, 1912 : 
North-West Australia. 
Distr .—Winter visitor to Northern Australia (breeding in the 
Northern Hemisphere). 
Genus DITELMATIAS Mathews. 
Ditelmatias Mathews, Birds Austr. vol. iii. p. 282, Dec. 3.1st, 1913. 
Type (by original designation) : Gallinago hardwickii Gray. 
Ditelmatias hardwickii (Gray). (^4-252.) 
Scolopax hardwickii Gray, Zool. Miscell. pt. i. p. 16, Nov. 5th, 1831: 
Tasmania. (Fig. Gould, vi. pi. 40; Math. pi. 166.) 
Scolopax australis Latham, Index Ornitli., Suppl. p. lxv, after May 1801: 
Australia. Not Scopoli, Annus I. Hist. Nat. p. 94, 1709. 
Distr .—Winter visitor to Australia and Tasmania (breeding in 
Japan). 
Genus CCENOCORYPHA Gray. 
Coenocorypha Gray, Cat. Gen. Subgen. Birds, before April 18th, 1855, 
p. 119. Type (by original designation): Gallinago aucJclandica 
Gray. 
Holmesia Gray, Hand-list Gen. & Spec. Birds B.M. pt. iii. p. 53, Aug. 18th, 
1871: new name for above (ex Bonaparte, MS., 1855). 
Coenocorypha aucklandica (Gray). 
Distr .—Islands mentioned. 
Coenocorypha aucklandica aucklandica (Gray). (24-GG1.) 
Gallinago aucklandica Gray, Voy. ‘Erebus’ & ‘Terror,’ Birds, 
p. 13, (before Oct.) 1845: Auckland Islands. (Fig. Ereb & Ten- 1 
pi. 13.) 
Scolopax holmesii Peale, U.S. Explor. Exped., Birds, p. 229, Oct. 1848: as 
synonym of above. 
Distr.- -Auckland Islands (breeding). 
Coenocorypha aucklandica pusilla (Buller). (24-663.) 
Gallinago pusilla Buller, Ibis, Jan. 1869, p. 41 : Chatham Islands. 
(Fig. Buller, 2nd ed. pi. 28.) 
Distr. —Chatham Islands (breeding). 
