DRVMOICA TEXTRIX. 



AvES.— Plate LXXIV. Fig. 1.— (Male.) 



D. supra sordide brunnea, plumis albo aut flavo-brunneo marginatis ; infra sordide alba, pectore ventreque 

 striis brunneis variegatis ; cauda brunnea, rectricibus tribus externis lateris utriusque albo-terminatis ; 

 rostro pedibusque rubri-flavis. 



LoNGiTUDo e rostri apice ad basin cauda' 2 unc. 11 lin. ; cauda- 1 una. 1 lin. 



Le Pinc Pixc, Levaill. Ois. d'Afrique, pi. 131. 



Colour. — The upper parts of the head and neck, together with the inter- 

 scapulars, back and shoulders, umber-brown, variegated with white and clear 

 yellowish brown ; the colours constituting the variegations occur at the edges 

 and tips of the feathers, Mhich are either of the one or other of the light tints; 

 in the feathers of the back they are mostly yellowish brown. The sides of 

 the head and neck dirty yellowish brown, mottled with small umber-brown 

 blotches. The primary and secondary quill-coverts umber-brown edged and 

 tipped with pale wood-brown ; primary and secondary quill-feathers brownish 

 red, the former edged, faintly, with pale wood-brown, the latter rather broadly 

 with dirty greyish white. Chin and throat dirty greyish white, indistinctly 

 mottled with light umber-brown ; breast and anterior portion of belly pale 

 sienna-yellow distinctly mottled with oblong umber-brown spots nearly dis- 

 posed in rows, middle and hinder portions of belly blueish white ; flanks and 

 vent pale yellowish brown, the former variegated with longitudinal umber-brown 

 stripes. The two centre tail feathers brownish red, the rest umber-brown, 

 the whole edged with wood-brown, and the three outermost ones of each side 

 broadly tipped with white. Bill, legs, and toes pale bufi'-orange, the upper 

 mandible deepened from a shade of brown ; claws the same colour, rather 

 brownish at the tips. Eyes reddish brown. 



Form, &c. — Figure rather robust. Bill short, rather robust towards base, 

 slender and compressed towards point ; it is slightly curved, and the arch of 

 the culmen anteriorly is considerable. Wings rounded, and when folded 

 cover nearly the first half of the tail ; the third, fourth, fifth and sixth quill 

 feathers nearly equal and longest, the second and seventh rather shorter, the 

 first rudimentary and narrow ; the two innermost secondaries, and some of 

 the tertiaries nearly equal in length to the primary quill feathers. Tail very 



