DRYMOICA SUBSTRIATA.— Smith.* 



AvEs. — Plate LXXII.— Fig. I. (Female.) 



D. supra flavo-bnmnea colore rubiginosa tincta; infra ocliraceo- alba; pectore striis brunneis variegato ; 

 remigibus bninneo-rubris pallide griseo-brunnco-niargiiiatis ; rectricibus grlseo-brunneis colore rubi- 

 ginosa lavatis ; rostro colore corneo ; tarsis, pedibus, unguibusque nibri-flavis. 



LoNGlTUDO e rostri apice ad basin caudse 2 nnc. S lin. ; caudae 3 iinc. 



Colour. — The top of the head, the sides of the neck and the shouklers light 

 broccoU-biown ; tlie back of the head, the upper parts of the neck, the 

 interscapulars, back, and tail coverts a uniform rusty yellowish brown. 

 Sides of head and ear-coverts pale wood-brown, the latter faintly streaked 

 with dull umber-brown ; eyebrows white, prolonged behind the eyes. Chin, 

 throat, centre of breast, and belly, ochrey white, the breast variegated with 

 several narrow, longitudinal, umber-brown stripes, one along the centre ot 

 each feather ; tianks and vent light yellowish brown. Primary and secondary 

 quill coverts, and the quill feathers, pale brownish red, faintly margined with 

 wood-brown ; some of the inner secondaries and the tertiaries broadly 

 margined with yellowish brown. Tail a rusty broccoli-brown, the middle 

 feathers darkest. Bill a dark horn-colour ; legs, toes, and claws pale buti'- 

 orange, the latter brown at the points. 



Form, 6cc. — Figure slender and lengthened. Bill slender and nearly 

 straight, the culmen slightly arched, particularly towards the point ; it is 

 triangular at the base, and compressed towards the tip : nostrils small, 



* Having carefully compared all tbe species of tliis genus which I possess, with the species described 

 and represented by Levaillant, (Oiseaux d'Afrique,) I am not able to satisfy myself of the identity of 

 more than one of mine, the " Pine Pine" plate 131; hence I have preferred figuring all the species which 

 I possess, rather than incur the risk of including two species under one name. The species I have figured 

 as Dri/moica rHfieapiUa is, I suspect, identical with Ln Roiisse Tctc, Levaillant, plate 12-1, but the 

 rest I am disposed to regard as specifically dififerent from any described by him. I am sometimes disposed 

 to believe that the renowned traveller, whom no one can respect and honour more than I do, has 

 occasionally, from accident, probably through an intermixture of specimens, considered birds as natives of 

 South Africa which belong to other countries ; and it is only by presuming such to have happened, that I 

 can account for my never having been able to procure or hear of various species \\hieh Levaillant aflirms 

 are found in it. 



