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are very small and weak, hardly enabling the bird to fly fifty yards. 
Tf flushed more than once, it betakes itself to a clump of grass, or 
bush, and will suffer itself to be taken with the hand rather than 
rise again ; for this reason it has acquired the name of “ Idle Jack” 
and “ Lazy Dick.” 
Mrs. Barber sends nest and eggs of this curious bird. The 
former, usually constructed in the bottom of a bush, is a beautiful 
structure, lined with feathers and hair. The eggs white, more or less 
clouded (at the obtuse end chiefly) with very faint “ indian-ink” 
spots or blotches. Axis, 11”; diam. 7”. 
Upper parts rufous, deepest on the head and rump, inclining to 
grey on the fore part of the back, and everywhere marked with 
very dark-brown, broad streaks down the centre of the feathers : 
these are nearly obsolete on the head, but extend along the centre 
of the tail-feathers: under parts, uniform light Isabella-coloured, 
everywhere mottled with dark black-brown streaks, most evident on 
the flanks ; ‘beak grey, inclining to black towards the culmen ; legs 
grey; iris hazel’’ (Shelley). Length 8” 9”; wings, 3”; tail, 4”. 
Fig. le Vaill. Ois. d’Afr. pl. 112, fig. 2. 
266. APALIS THORACICA. Bar-throated Warbler. 
Drymoica thoracica, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 93. 
This warbler is generally distributed all over the colony. We 
procured specimens in considerable numbers at Plettenberg’s Bay 
(on the southern side of the colony), in the wooded ravines and 
deserted gardens in which the brushwood had sprung up. They 
hunted incessantly after insects, gliding about among the branches, 
peering up at the under sides of the leaves or thick branches, and 
darting up at the small insects which sought concealment in such 
situations. 
Swellendam has furnished us with several specimens; it is also 
abundant at Nel’s Poort, and all along the rivers in that part of the 
Karroo; and we likewise saw a pair which evidently were nesting in 
the rank herbage and scrub which line the crater of the minute 
volcano from which issue the hot springs of Caledon. 
Captain Shelley says that he met with several specimens creeping 
about the stunted bushes while on the way to Ceres. Victorin 
procured it at the Knysna from April to September, and Mr. 
Rickard has noted it from Port Elizabeth. Mr. Thomas Ayres gives 
