BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



about Trith rapid strokes of the wing, suddenly dropping into the 

 bushes, nnd then remaining mute. 



Le Vaillant attributes to this little bird a nest which is very common 

 fibcut tho country, arid is jveil known under the name of the " nest of 

 the Kapokvogel," but he is quite in error. The fabricotcr of thi:> nest, 

 the true " Kapokvogel " (or cotton-bird i, being the little dSgitk&lus 

 Miiiutus. The nest OL D, Textrix is a domed structure, generally sup- 

 ported between stems of grasses. The eggs, 45, are white, spotted 

 with minute reddish spots : axis, 1'" ; diain., 6". 



146. Drymoica Pectoralis, Smith, Zooi. s, A., 



PL 75, f. 2. 



TOP of head, car-coverts, back of neck, interscapulars, and 

 back, brown ; eyebrows whitish ; under parts dirty -white ; 

 the belly and vent more or less ochreous ; breast with a broad, 

 dark-brown band; tail long, and much graduated, wood- 

 brown, lightest at the tips, with a faint dark bar across each 

 feather, except the two centre ones, which also want the 

 light tips. Length, 5" ; wing, 2" 1'". 



Inhabits dry situations abounding in brushwood, and was found 

 principally at and around Latakoo. It feeds upon insects, procured 

 upon the shrubs and dwarf trees which it frequents. Dr. A. Smith, 

 loc. cit. 



147. Drymoica Pallida, Smith, Zooi. s. A., PL 



72, f. 2. 



UPPER parts, pale broccoli-brown, lightly washed with 

 yellowish-brown ; the head and upper parts of neck lightest ; 

 the tail darkest; car-coverts rusty-white; chin, throat, and 

 breast white, fuintly tinged with wood- brown ; belly and 

 vent, pale senna- yellow ; tail long and much graduated. 

 Length, 5" 11'"; wing, 2" 1$". 



The only specimens procured by Dr. Smith were obtained about 

 300 miles" north cf Cape Town, in Namaqualand. " It occasionally 

 occurs in thickets, but more generally upon dwarf trees in the vicinity 

 of streams; and through these it passes rapidly from branch to branch 

 in pursuit of insects, which form its chief food." Dr. A. Smith, 

 loc. cit. 



148. Drymoica Pasciolata, Smith ZOOL s. A., 



PL 11J. 



TOP of head, neck, end interscapulars, between orange-brown 

 and oil- green ; back and rump between hyacinth-red and 

 yellowish-brown ; across each wing a bar of pale cream- 

 yellow; chin and throat pure white, with short narrow 

 transverse Timbre- brown bars ; breast and belly senna-yellow, 



