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with curved bars ; tail fau-shaped, rather silky, with semi- 

 circular points, light reddish-brown, with a tint of green. 

 Length, 5" ; wing, 2" 6'" ; tail, 2". 



Inhabits districts covered thinly with small underwood, and in such 

 places is found moving from bush to bush in search of its food, which 

 it appears to take partly from the top of the bushes and partly from 

 the branches, among which it passes rapidly. Open flat plains to the 

 north-east of Latakoo. Dr. A. Smith, loc. cit. 



149. Drymoica Natalensis, Smith, Zooi. s. a., 



PI. 80. 



Upper surface of head, back, and sides of neck, back, and 

 rump, between reddish and buff-orange ; each of the feathers, 

 except those of the rump, marked along the shaft with a 

 broad longitudinal dark umber-brown stripe ; tail graduated, 

 reddish-brown, edged with reddish-orange, tipped with pale 

 buff-orange ; behind each tip a broad transverse bar of deep 

 umber-brown, indistinct on the centre feathers ; wing-feathers 

 brownish-red, margined with dull reddish-orange ; chin and 

 throat white ; rest of the under parts senna-yellow. Length, 

 7" 3'"; wings, 3"; tail, 3" 4'". 



" Inhabits the neighbourhood of Port Natal, and the specimen 

 described was shot upon reeds, among which it was flitting to and fro 

 in search of insects, which, from the ingesta found in its stomach, 

 appeared to have been its sole food.'' Dr. A. Smith, loc. cit. 



150. Drymoica Ocularius, Smith, Zooi. s. a., 



PI. 75, f. 1. 



Top of head, back, sides of neck, interscapulars, back and 

 lesser wing-coverts, umber-brown, striped with yellowish- 

 brown ; sides of head and ear-coverts reddish ; chin and 

 throat white ; breast dirty-white, crossed by a narrow brown 

 bar; under parts dirty- white ; tail long, and much graduated, 

 umber-brown, the two middle feathers being broccoli-brown. 

 Length,- 5" 3'"; wings, 2"; tail, 3" 3'". 



Dr. A. Sinith states, loc. cit : " This bird has a rather extensive range 

 in South Africa, being found, though sparingly, among the brushwood 

 in the northern districts of the Cape Colony, and between those and 

 the Tropic of Capricorn. It feeds upon insects ; and, in quest of them, 

 it is to be seen flitting from branch to branch in the most arid and 

 barren situations." I have received several specimens from Kuruman, 

 and found it myself in one particular locality near Mr. Jackson's place 

 at Nel's Poort, Beaufort. In its method of flight and search after 

 prey, it exactly resembled the common species, I). Capensis. Its nest 

 also resembles that of the last named, and its eggs are pale blue, 

 immaculate : axis, &" ; diam., 5'" 



