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sides of breast and flanks tinged with hair-brown ; wings 

 light browish-red ; tail lengthened and graduated, coloured 

 like the back, lightest at the points, with a faint dark mark 

 behind the light colour. Length, 5" IQi'" ; wing, 2" 4'"; 

 tail, 3" 2'". 



*' The only specimens of this species seen by Dr. A. Smith " were 

 shot near Port Natal, while perched " upon some brushwood which 

 skirted a tract of marshy ground. Before they resorted to the brush- 

 wood, they were observed flitting to and fro among strong bushes, as 

 if in quest of their food, which was found to have consisted of 

 insects."— Dr. A. Smith, loc. cit. 



154. Drymoica Affinis, Smith, z. s. A., Pi. 77, f. i. 



Top of head, back and sides of neck, broccoli-brown, faintly- 

 tinged with yellowish-brown ; interscapulars and back, 

 intermediate between broccoli and yellowish brown, glossed 

 with oil-green ; rump pale yellowish-brown ; chin, throat, 

 centre of breast and belly, yellowish- white ; flanks and vent, 

 rusty senna-yellow ; wing-feathers brownish- red, margined 

 with light yellow-brown ; tail elongated, and much graduated, 

 light reddish -brown, edged with yellowish- brown, tipped with 

 white, with a broad transverse brownish bar behind the 

 white. Length, 4" 71'" ; wing, 2" ; tail, 2" 6'". 



" Inhabits dry flats in the interior of South Africa, and flits to and 

 fro, in search of insects, amongst the shrubs with which they arp more 

 or less coated." — Dr. A. Smith, loc. cit. 



155. Drymoica Oherina, Smith, z. s. a., pi. 



7-7, £2. -■ ■ ' , ..:■■• 



Top of head, and back and sides of neck, deep reddish-brown ; 

 interscapulars, rump, lesser wing-coverts, quill- coverts, umber:^ 

 brown, the feathers edged and tipped with yellowish-brow'n ; 

 back yellowish-brown ; tail very short, and rounded, umber- 

 brown, the two centre feathers tipped narrowly, the others 

 broadly, with white, and each, with the exception of the two 

 centre ones, crossed by an umber-brown bar immediately 

 behind the white tip ; chin, throat, centre of breast and belly, 

 yellowish-white ; sides of breast and flanks tinted with 

 broccoli-brown. Length, 3" 11'" ; wing, 1" 11'"; tail, I" 7 1'". 



" Inhabits situations covered with strong grass, and seeks its food, 

 which consists of small insects, either on the ground or upon the grass 

 itself, along the stalks of which it runs with facility. It also perches 

 upon small shrubs." Dr. A. Smith, loc. cit. 



