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Show BIRDS. 69 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 unfrequent1y be seen in pairs. They hop and likewise 1·un quickly; in which latter respect, and likewise in their greater tameness, they differ from the 0. vulga·ris. 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 20th of September, I found, near Valparaiso, the nest of 0. Patagotticus, 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 coarse grass and was untidily built. The egg rather elongated; length 1 ·11 of an inch, width in broadest part ·8 of an inch; perfectly white. GENus.-EREMOBIUS. Gould. Rostrum capitis longitudine seu longius, Jere rectum, ad apicem deorswm curvat~mt, ltaud emm-ginatum; naribus pm·vis, basalibus, oblongis, in sulco positis; Alre breves, remigibus primariis secunda1·iisque Jere cequalibus, plumis 4, 5, 6-que subcequalibus longissimisque ,· Cauda mediocris ftpice rotundato; Tarsi sublongi ant ice squamis Jere obsoletis induti, ltalluce digito media b1·eviore, digitis lateralibtts incequalibus, intet·nis brevio1'ibus. EREMOBIUS PHCENICURUS. Gould. PLATE XXI. E. fuscus, 1·emigibus cinm·eo Jusco marginatis, stria superciliari pone oculos extensa cinereo-albd; cauda nigro-fusca basi castaneo fused; gula abdomineque medio cinerea albis; kypocltond1·iis tect1·icib1~sque caudalib1~s iriferioribus pallide jlavescentibus. Long. tot. Gf.r unc. ; rost. 1; alec, 2-J\ ; caudal, 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 |
