DRYMECA MACULOSA. 259 
specimens in the British Museum, collected by the late Mr. Anders- 
son at Ovaquenyama, in May, 1867, and a young bird from Elephant 
Vley, shot on the 8th August, 1859. There is also a specimen of a 
Drymeca in the British Museum collected by Livingstone at Tete 
in the Zambesi district, which agrees with the description of Dr. 
Peters’ Drymeca bivittata. The latter we think must be a synonym 
of D. affinis, to which species the above-mentioned Zambesi skin 
certainly belongs. 
Adult in breeding plumage. —Above ashy brown; inclining 
rather to fulyous brown on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings 
brown, the coverts edged with ashy brown, the quills margined 
with dull rufous; tail light ashy-brown, tipped with white, with a 
distinct blackish subterminal bar on all but the two long centre tail- 
feathers ; lores and a broad eyebrow dull yellowish white; feathers 
in front of the eye and ear-coverts ashy-brown, the latter dull white 
on the lower parts, like the cheeks; under surface of body pale 
yellowish white, deepening into tawny buff on the sides of the body ; 
thighs and under wing-coverts tawny; sides of the upper breast 
washed with greyish; bill black; legs flesh colour; iris brown. 
Total length,4°9 inches; culmen, 0°55; wing, 1-9; tail,2°4; tarsus, 0°9. 
Fig. Smith, Ill. Zool. 8. Afr. Aves, pl. 77, fig. 1. 
244. Drym@ca MACULOSA. Cape Grass-Warbler. 
Drymoica capensis, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 92. 
Like the foregoing bird this species has a subterminal spot on the 
tail-feathers, but it always has a distinct wash of yellow on the under 
parts and on the breast, and is streaked with black at all ages. It is 
the common species of the Cape Colony, and Mr. Andersson writes 
as follows :—“I have reason to think that this bird is common in 
some of the southern parts of Great Namaqua Land ; further south, 
on the west coast and within the Cape Colony, I have frequently 
met with it; and in the neighbourhood of Cape Town it is exceed- 
ingly common, a pair or two inhabiting almost every garden. 
“Tt is found singly or in pairs ; and its whereabouts is easily dis- 
covered by the harsh querulous notes that it is in the habit of uttering 
almost incessantly. It builds in low bushes; and the nest is com- 
posed of moss, wool, and other soft material, which are artistically 
and strongly put together. This species feeds on insects, searching 
for them either on the ground or amongst the low bushes which 
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