DRYMOICA RUFICAPILLA. 



AvES.— Plate LXXIII. Fig. 1. (Male.) 



D. capite cerviceque superne pallide castanois ; interscapuliis, dorso, caudaquc brunneis flavo-brunneo 

 lavatis; reniigibus pallide brunneo-rubris pallide flavobrimneo-marginatis; gula, gutture, pectoris 

 ventrisque medio pallide stramincis ; capitis, cervicis, pectoris ventrisque lateribus pallide griseo- 

 brunneis ; rostro flavo-brunneo ; pedibus rubri-flavis ; oculis rubri-aurantiis. 



LoNGlTuno e rostri apice ad basin caudse 2 unc. C lin. ; caudoB 1 iinc. 1 ] lin. 



Le Eousse Tete, Levaill. Ois. d'Afriquc, pi. 12i.? 



Colour. — Top of the head and upper parts of the neck pale chesnut- 

 brown, the latter lightest ; interscapulars, back, and tail coverts pale broc- 

 coli-brown washed with yellowish brown ; tail the same colour, but brighter 

 and the feathers margined with light yellowish brown of a dull hue. Lesser 

 quill coverts light brownish red, broadly margined and tipped with pale 

 broccoli-brown. Primary and secondary quill coverts, and primary and 

 secondary quill feathers pale brownish red, margined more or less broadly 

 with pale yellowish brown, a few of the secondaries and the tertiary feathers 

 edged with pale chesnut-brown. Chin, throat, centre of breast and belly, 

 pale straw-yellow ; sides of head, neck, breast, belly, and vent, pale greyish 

 brown. Bill yellowish brown, the upper mandible shaded with umber- 

 brown ; legs and toes pale buft-orange ; claws a pale horn colour. Eyes 

 bright reddish orange. 



Form, &c. — Figure slender, tail rather short and slightly graduated. Bill 

 nearly straight, and rather slender, towards point compressed, towards base 

 triangular; wings rounded, and when folded reach over the first fourth 

 of the tail ; the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh quill feathers nearly 

 equal and longest ; the second considerably shorter, and the first narrow and 

 about half the length of the second ; the tertiaries as long as the primary 

 quill feathers. Tarsi rather strong, anteriorly scutellated, posteriorly entire ; 



