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260 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
form its favourite resort; it runs with great rapidity along the 
ground, and steals through tangled foliage with equal celerity.” 
Victorin records this species from the Karroo in January, and 
from the Knysna in May and November. Mr. Andersson also pro- 
cured it at the latter place in January and February, and we have 
seen a specimen of his shooting, from Kugel Fountain, Little 
Namaqua Land, and bearing date August 6th, 1862. We have 
received it also from Colesberg and Swellendam, and it extends to 
Port Elizabeth, where Mr. Rickard procured it im May, 1868. 
Adult male—Above dull earthy brown, the wings a little darker 
than the back, with indistinct rufous-brown margins to the quills, 
the primaries narrowly edged with whity brown ; tail-feathers light 
brown with pale whitish tips and a subterminal bar of black ; lores 
yellowish white, as also a distinct eyebrow ; cheeks and sides of face 
pale yellowish with distinct triangular spots of black, obscuring the 
yellow of the ear-coverts which are also brown on their hinder 
margin ; under surface of body pale yellowish, with distinct longi- 
tudinal spots of black, larger on the breast and smaller on the 
throat and on the sides of the body, which are washed with pale 
tawny brown; the abdomen unstreaked, pale yellow; thighs dull 
tawny, the under tail coverts also pale tawny brown with indistinct 
darker centres ; wings light tawny buff, the lower series ashy brown 
at tips like the lower surface of the quills whieh are edged with pale 
rufous along the inner web; bill flesh-colour, shading into dark 
brown on the upper mandible and the tips of the lower one; legs 
flesh-colour ; iris brownish yellow. Total length, 5 inches; culmen, 
0°55; wing, 2°0; tail, 2°75; tarsus, 0°85. 
Fig. Smith, Il. Zool. 8. Afr. Aves, pl. 76, fig. 1. 
245. Drymaca nypoxantHa, Sharpe. 
Saffron-breasted Grass-Warbler. 
This new species, as we regard it, is the eastern representative of 
D. maculosa, and differs from it in the deep yellow colour of the 
throat and abdomen, and in the very narrow blackish streaks on the 
breast. We have received several specimens from Mr. T, C. Atmore 
killed in the neighbourhood of Eland’s Post in the Eastern Province, 
and Captain Shelley has also examples from the neighbourhood of 
Pinetown in Natal. We believe that it is this species of which Mr. 
Ayres speaks in his early papers on the ornithology of Natal, under 
the name of D. substriata. He writes as follows :— 
