86 BIRDS OF SOOTH; AFRICA. 



about Tvith rapid strokes of the . wing, .suddenly dropping into the 

 bushes, and then remaining mute. 



Le Vaillant attributes to this little bird a nest which is very common 

 about the country, and is well known under the name of the " nest of 

 the Kapokvogel," but he is quite in error. The fabricator of this nest, 

 the true " Kapokvogel " (or cotton-bird), being the little JEgithalus 

 Minutus. The nest of D. Textrix is a domed structure, generally sup- 

 ported between stems of grasses. The eggs, 4 — 5, are white, spotted 

 with minute reddish spots : axis, 7"' ; diam., 6". ' 



146. Drymoica Pectoralis, Smith, Zooi. s. a., 



PI. 75, f. 2. 

 Top of head, ear-coverts, back of neck, interscapulars, and 

 back, brown ; eyebrows whitish ; under parts dirty-white ; 

 the belly and vent more or less ^ochreous ; breast with a broad, 

 dark-brown baud ; tail long, and much graduated, wood- 

 brown, lightest at the tips, with a faint dark bar across each 

 feather, except the two centre ones, which also want the 

 light tips. Length, 5" ; wing, 2" V". 



Inhabits dry situations abounding in brushwood, and was found 

 principally at and around Latakoo. It feeds upon insects, procured 

 upon the shrubs and dwarf trees which it frequents. Dr. A. Smith, 

 loc. cit. 



147. Drymoica Pallida, Smith, Zooi. s. a., pi 



72, f. 2. 



Upper parte, pale broccoli-brown, lightly washed with 

 yellowish-brown ; the head and upper parts of neck lightest ; 

 the tail darkest ; ear-coverts rusty- white ; chin, throat, and 

 breast white, faintly tinged with wood-brown ; belly and 

 vent, pale senna- yellow ; tail long and much graduated. 

 Length, 5" II'" ; wing, 2" IJ". 



The only specimens procured by Dr. Smith were obtained about 

 300 miles north of Cape Town, in Namaqualand. " It occasionally 

 occurs in thickets, but more generally upon dwarf trees in the vicinity 

 of streams ; and through these it passes rapidly from branch to branch 

 in pursuit of insects, which form its chief food." Dr. A. Smith, 

 loc. cit. 



148. Drymoica Fasciolata, Smith Zooi. s. a., 

 PI. 111. 



Top of head, neck, and interscapulars, between orange-brown 

 and oil-green ; back and rump between hyactnth-red and 

 yellowish-brown ; across each wing a bar of pale cream- 

 yellow; chin and throat pure white, with short narrow 

 transverse umbre- brown bars ; breast and belly senna-yellow, 



