_Limosa scolopacea._--Dusky cinereous; _bill_, straight; upper mandible a little longer, and very slightly arquated towards the tip; the grooves continue to near the tip, about as long again as the head, yellowish green; _tip_ black, dilated, rugose, with a dorsal groove; _palate_ with reflected, cartilaginous spines; _head_ with a line from the upper mandible, passing over the eye and inferior orbit; white _cheeks_, _chin_, _throat_, and origin of the _breast_, cinereous; the plumage margined with dull whitish; _back_ beneath the interscapulars, white; _rump_, plumage white, fasciate with black; _tail coverts_, and _tail_ white fasciate with black, which latter colour is more abundant; _lesser wing coverts_ margined with whitish; _greater wing coverts_ black, terminal margin white: _secondaries_ black, margin and submargin white; _primaries_ black, interior ones very slightly edged with white; _outer shaft_ white, a little longer than the second; _breast_ and _belly_ white; _sides_ spotted or undulated with blackish cinereous; _inferior tail coverts_ with black abbreviated bands, the white prevailing; _feet_ dirty greenish; _toes_ webbed at base, the exterior one reaching the first joint of outer toe, the interior one very short; _hind toe_ rather long. inches. Length from tip of bill to that of the tail, 11-3/4 Length of bill, 2-3/4 Length of feet, 5-3/4 Length from the knee to the origin of the feathers, 1-1/10 Tail projecting more than one inch beyond the tip of the wing. Several specimens were shot in a pond near the Bowyer creek. Corresponds with the genus scolopax, Cuv. in having the dorsal grooves at the tip of the upper mandible, and in having this part dilated and rugose; but the eye is not large, nor is it placed far back upon the head; which two latter characters, combined with its more elevated and slender figure, and the circumstance of the thighs being denudated of feathers high above the knee, and the exterior toe being united to the middle toe by a membrane, which extends as far as the first joint, and the toes being also margined, combine to distinguish this species from those of the genus to which the form and characters of its bill would refer it, and approach it more closely to _limosa_. In one specimen the two exterior primaries on each wing were light brown, but the quills were white. It may perhaps with propriety be considered as the type of a new genus, and under the following characters, be placed between the genera scolopax and limosa.