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WHITE-EYEBROWED LONGTAIU 



Drymotca superciliosa., SWAINS. 



PLATE II. 



Light brown, unspotted; eyebrows and plumage beneath, 

 white ; belly, thighs, and flanks, ferruginous ; lateral tail- 

 feathers blackish at the end, and tipt with white ; lateral 

 toes somewhat unequal. 



THE greater number of the small African Warblers, 

 are little wren-like birds, something resembling in 

 their general cast of colours our white-throat, and 

 like that clothed in very plain colours : they con- 

 stitute a very peculiar group, for which we proposed, 

 many years ago, the name of Drymoica; none of the 

 species, of which there are very many, have been 

 found in the new world. The corresponding group 

 in Asia is Prinea; the chief distinction between 

 them being this, that in Drymoica the two lateral 

 toes are equal ; whereas, in the Indian group, the 

 inner toe is much shorter than the outer, the latter 

 being connected to the first joint of the middle toe. 

 Both, however, have short rounded wings, and their 

 soft tails are more or less rounded, and sometimes 

 graduated. 



As we do not find this species, the only one we 



