192 TIMELIIDiE. 



Drymoica mvstacea, Riipp. Si/st. Uehers. p. 56, tab. 10 (1845) ; Ch-ay, 



Gen. B. i.p. 163 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 283 (1850) ; Jard. Contr. 



Orn. 1852, p. 60 ; Gratj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 199, no. 2776 (1869) ; 



Finsch, Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 321 (1870). 

 Drymoica melanorhynclius, Jard. S/- Fraser, Contr. Orn, 1852, p. 60. 

 Drymoica sp., Livht. Noniencl. Av. p. 31 (1854). 

 Cysticola(?) mystacea, Heugl. Syst. Uehers. p. 22 (1856). 

 Drymreca melauorhyuclia, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 66 (1857) ; Gurney, 



Ibis, 1860, p. 208 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p,92 (1867) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 



1870, p. 475; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 31 (1871); Shelley Sf Buckley, 

 Ibis, 1872, p. 287 ; Sharpe <$• Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. 

 p. 42 (1876). 



Drymceca superciliosa, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 55 (1857) ; Heugl. 



Ibis, 1809, p. 89 ; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 240 (1869), iv. p. Ixxii 



(1871) ; Finsch ^- Hartl. Vbg. Ostafr. p. 232 (1870) ; Sharpie, Cat. 



Afr. B. p. 31 (1871) ; Reichenoiv, J. f O. 1875, p. 46 ; Bocage, 



Jorn. Lisb. 1880, p. 241 ; id. Orn. Angola, p. 553 (1881). 

 Drymoeca mystacea, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 57 (1857) ; Heugl. Ibis, 



1862, p. 88 ; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 2.39 (1869), iv. p. Ixxi (1871) ; 



Blanf Geol. ^ Zool. Abyss, p. 373 (1870) ; Shar2m, Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 30 (1871). 

 Drymoica aberrans (nee Smith), Gurney, Ibis, 1863, p, 324, 1868, 



p. 155. 

 Drymoica pallida (nee Smith), Gurney, Ibis, 1863, p. 325, 1868, 



p. 15.5. 

 Drymoica sp., Antinori, Cat. descrr. Ucc. p. 37 (1864) ; Salvad, 



Mivist. Crit. Antin. p. 733 (1869). 

 Drymoica bivittata, Peters, J.f. O. 1868, p. 131 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 199, no. 2769 (1869) ; Finsch ^ Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 233 



(1870). 

 Drymceca miiriua, Heugl. Ibis, 1869, p. 90 ; id. Orn. N. O.-Afr. i. 



p. 241 (1869), iv. p. Ixxii (1871). 

 Drj'moica muriua. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 199, no. 2789 (1869). 

 Drymoica tenella, Cab. in Von der Decken's Heise, iii. Aves, p. 23, 



tab. ii. fig. 1 (1869) ; Eeichen. J. f 0. 1877, p. 30 ; Cab. J. f. O. 



1878, p. 222. 

 Drymoeca aflinis, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 30 (1871) ; Ayres, Ibis, 



1871, p. 150; Shm-pe, eil. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 258 (1876) ; id. ^ 

 Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, ii. p. 475 (1877). 



Drymoeca bivittata, Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 2-59 (1876). 



Adult. General colour above smoky brown, the head and nape a 

 little more dusky than the back, the rump and upper tail-coverts 

 clearer and more rufous-brown ; quills dark brown, edged with ashy 

 brown on the lesser coverts, and with reddish browu on the median 

 and greater series ; primary-coverts and quills dark brown, with pale 

 reddish-brown edges, more fulvescent on the primaries ; tail-feathers 

 light brown, with dusky cross bars under certain lights, margins 

 paler brown, all but the two centre feathers narrowly tipped with 

 whitish, before which is a very distinct bar of black ; lores white, 

 extending above the eye ; in front of the latter a dusky spot ; cheeks 

 and ear-coverts yellowish white, spotted with dusky ; ear-coverts 

 dark ashy along the upper margin ; under surface of body yellowish 

 buff, whiter on the throat and abdomen ; sides of breast ashy grey, 

 flanks rather more fulvous; thighs dull tawny; under tail-coverts 



