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Limnornis

Maldonado. La Plata (June)

Frequent the rushes & other aquatic plants on the borders of a lake, have about which it crawls actively.—

Eyton shows oste anatomical description of Opetiorhynchus Furnanius agree, I show, note, & red feathers on wing allied yet, beak & habits different

insects

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grains

little stones & berries

Synallaxis ægithaloides. Valparaiso still closer tom tit, which is replaced by this present species.— long doubted whether not are tomtit.— resembles them in behaviour, form, & habit of life.— beak like genus Parus— oblong bone form of nostrils covered with little feathers on upper edge more like Synallaxis.— Fine case of transition into forms of N. Hemisphere— comparable — running through genus— not reiterates any—Kittlitz

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