DRYMOICA LEVAILLANTIL— Smith. 



AvEC— Plate LXXIII.— Fig. 2. (Male.) 



D. capite cerviceque superne pallidc castaneis, brunneo-strigatis ; interscapuliis dorsoque profunde 

 brunneis, pinnis flavo-brunneo niarginatis ; rectricibus brunneo-rubris pallide castaneo-marginatis ; 

 partibus inferioribus pallide flavo-brunneis ; rectricibus brunneis externe castaneo-marginatis, 

 plumarum apicibus pallide flavo-brunneis ; rostro livido-brunneo ; pcdibus rubri-flavis ; oculis 

 castaneis. 



LoNGiTUDO e rostri apice ad basin caud;p 2 unc. 5 lin. ; caudae 2 unc. 8 lin. 



Colour. — The upper parts of the head, and the upper and lateral parts of 

 the neck, bright chesnut-brown, the two first variegated with umber-brown 

 stripes, one along the centre of each feather; interscapulars, back, and tail 

 coverts liver-brown, each feather edged on both sides with pale wood-brown ; 

 lesser wing coverts umber-brown, broadly edged and tipped with pale 

 broccoli-brown. Primary and secondary quill coverts, and the tertiary quill 

 feathers, liver-brown, and distinctly edged externally with pale wood-brown ; 

 primary and secondary quill feathers light brownish red, edged with chesnut- 

 brown. Under parts pale wood-brown, the throat lightest, and inclined to 

 white. Tail feathers light umber-brown, margined externally with pale 

 chesnut-brown, and broadly tipped with dull wood-brown ; behind the light 

 points each feather is marked with a circumscribed liver-brown blotch, which 

 is much darker than the general colour of the feather, and is most readily 

 seen on the under surface of the tail. Eyebrows and sides of the head wood- 

 brown. Bill horn-coloured, the lower mandible lightest ; legs and toes pale 

 buff-orange ; claws horn-coloured. Eyes deep chesnut-brown. 



Form, &c. — Figure rather robust; tail moderately long and graduated; 

 bill slightly curved, triangular at the base, compressed towards the point, 

 culmen considerably arched, wings rounded, and when folded reach over the 

 first third of the tail; the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth nearly equal and 

 longest, the second rather shorter, and nearly equal in length to the 

 secondary quill feathers ; the first about half the length of the third, and very 

 narrow. Tarsi robust, anteriorly scutcllated, posteriorly entire ; toes rather 



