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256 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
measures as follows: Total length 4°8 inches, culmen 0°55, wing 2°05, 
tail 2°3, tarsus 0°85. 
241. Dryma@ca suBSTRIATA. White-breasted Grass-Warbler. 
After much consideration we have come to the conclusion that 
this species is distinct, both from D. maculosa, and D. flavicans. 
It resembles the latter in wanting the sub-terminal black spot to the 
tail-feathers, but it differs from it in being white below with rufous 
flanks; the breast is very narrowly streaked with black. Sir 
Andrew Smith met with but few of these birds, and those only on 
the banks of the Oliphant River, about one hundred miles north of 
Cape Town. They were usually found in thickets composed of high 
brushwood or dwarf trees, in-which they were seen rapidly flitting 
from branch to branch, apparently in quest of insects, which con- 
stitute their food. 
Mr. Atmore procured this species, with its nest and eggs, at 
Traka; the latter are white, with the faintest tinge of green, marked 
with large blotches of dark and light-brown: axis 8’’’; diam, 51’”; 
We have also received it from Mr. Ortlepp at Colesberg. 
The following is a description of the typical specimen in the 
British Museum. Above light rufescent brown, more dusky on the 
forehead ; least and median wing-coverts washed with grey; rest 
of the coverts and secondaries externally of the same rufous brown 
as the back, the primaries dull brown with narrow margins of paler 
-brown; tail uniform brown; lores dull white; round the eye a 
distinct ring of white feathers; ear-coverts washed with light 
brown ; sides of neck greyish ; cheeks, throat, and under parts dull 
white, the sides of the body washed with fulvous, the lower flanks, 
thighs, and under tail-coverts tawny buff; the breast narrowly 
streaked with dark brown down the centre of each feather ; under 
wing-coverts dull white, as also the edge of the wing; quills ashy 
brown below, buffy whitish along the edge of the inner web; bill 
dark horn colour ; legs, toes, and claws pale buff-orange, the latter 
brown at the point. Total length 5°5 inches, culmen 0°5, wing 2°15, 
tail 3:1, tarsus 0°85. 
Fig. Smith, Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pl. 72, fig. 1. 
242. Drym@ca OCULARIA. Rufous-eared Grass-Warbler. 
This.is one of the most distinct species of Drymeca, and it may 
