Long. tot. 6²⁄₁₂ unc; rost. ²⁄₁₂, alæ, 2⁶⁄₁₂ caudæ, 2⁹⁄₁₂ tarsi, ⁹⁄₁₂.
Crown of the head brown; the remainder of the upper surface, pale yellowish brown; tail rufous and acutely pointed; wing coverts, primaries and secondaries brown, broadly margined with rufous; stripe behind the eye, throat, and all the under surface buffy white; flanks tawny; bill lengthened, orange at the base, dark brown at the tip; iris rusty red; feet very pale coloured; claws whitish.
Habitat, Maldonado, La Plata. (June.)
This bird lives amongst the reeds on the borders of lakes. It often alights vertically on stems of plants, but in climbing does not use its tail: habits, generally similar to those of Synallaxis maluroides.
Birds. Pl. 26.
Limnornis rectirostris
Birds. Pl. 25.
Limnornis curvirostris.
2. Limnornis curvirostris. Gould.
Plate XXV.