Genus— EREMIORNIS. 
Eremiornis North, Viet. Naturalist, Vol. XVII., 
No. 4, p. 78, August 9th, 1900. Type (by 
monotypy) ... ... ... ... ... Eremiornis carteri North. 
Medium “ Warblers ” with short, stoutish bills, with very rounded wings, 
long wedge tail of ten soft, broad feathers, short legs and small feet. 
The bill is very like that of the preceding genus, rictal-bristles obsolete. 
The wing is rounded, the first primary half the length of the third 
which exceeds the second very slightly and from the third to the ninth the 
primaries are subequal and longest ; the tenth is a little shorter, equal to the 
second and the secondaries are the same length. 
The tail is long and fan-shaped, composed of ten broad soft feathers ; 
the upper and under tail-coverts more than half the length of the longest tail- 
feathers and equalling the outer tail-feathers. 
The legs are short, anteriorly the tarsus bears four scutes and posteriorly 
it is bilaminate ; the middle toe without claw is equal to the inner toe with 
claw which is subequal with the outer ; the hind-toe is stouter, and the claw 
is longer but the hind-toe and claw is only about equal to the inner toe and 
claw. 
So much has been written about this rare bird that it is better known 
than many “ commoner ” forms. North was quite right in distinguishing 
it from Schoenicola, and the resemblance seems to me purely superficial and 
does not indicate close relationship at all. Both are degraded semi-flightless 
forms but probably have evolved quite independently. In addition to the 
longer and stouter legs of Schoenicola, the wing formula is different, and the 
tail-feathers differ in number as well as the different proportions of the tail- 
coverts. 
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