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quently be seen walking on the buoyant leaves of the Fucus giganteus, at some 

 little distance from the shore. In these respects, the birds of this genus entirely 

 replace in habits many species of Tringa. In the stomachs of those I opened I 

 found small crabs and little shells, and one Buccinum even a quarter of an inch 

 long : Kittlitz says, he found in one, besides such objects, some small seeds. 

 They are very quiet, tame and solitary, but they may not unfrequently be seen in 

 pairs. They hop and likewise run quickly ; in which latter respect, and likewise 

 in their greater tameness, they differ from the O. vulgaris. Their cry is seldom 

 uttered, but is a quick repetition of a shrill note, like that of the last named bird, 

 and of several species of Furnarius. 



On the 20tli of September, I found, near Valparaiso, the nest of O. Patago- 

 nicus, with young birds in it: it was placed in a small hole in the roof of a deep 

 cavern, not far from the bank of a pebbly stream. Three months later in the 

 summer I found, in the Chonos Archipelago (Lat. 45°), a nest of this species, 

 placed in a small hole beneath an old tree, close to the sea-beach. The nest 

 was composed of coai'se grass and was untidily built. The egg rather elongated ; 

 length I'll of an inch, width in broadest part "8 of an inch ; perfectly white. 



Genus. — Eremobius. Gould. 



Rostrum capitis longitudine seu longius, fere rectum, ad apicem deorsum curvatum, 

 haud emarginatum; naribus parvis, basalibus, oblougis, in sulco positis ; Alae breves, 

 remigibus priinariis secundariisque fere (equalibus, plumis 4, 5, 6-que subcequalibus 

 longissimisque ; Cauda mediocris apice rotundato ; Tarsi sublongi antice squamis 

 ferh obsoletis induti, halluce digito medio breviore, digitis lateralibus iucequalibus, 

 in ternis brevioribus . 



Eremobius phcenicurus. Gould. 



Plate XXI. 



E. fuscus, remigibus cinereo fusco marginatis, stria superciliai'i pone oculos extensd 

 cinereo-albd ; caudd nigro-fuscd basi castaneo fused ; gidd abdomineque medio 

 cinereo albis ; hypochomlriis tectricib usque caudalibus infer ioribus pallide Jlaves- 

 centibus. 



Long. tot. 6-f^ line. ; rost. 1 ; ahv, 2-^ ; cawhe, 3 ; tarsi, -^. 



Head and all the upper surface brown ; the primaries margined with greyish 

 brown ; stripe over and behind the eye greyish white ; tail feathers chestnut 

 brown at the base, and blackish brown for the remainder of their length ; 



