DRYMOICA TEXTRIX. 



short and slightly graduated. Tarsi robust, anteriorly scutellated, posteriorly 

 entire ; toes slender and rather long, the outer and middle ones united to- 

 wards base ; claws long, slender, and slightly curved. 



DIMENSIONS. 



Inches. Lines. 

 Lcngtli from the point of tlic bill to 



the tip of the tail 4 



of the bill to the .^Ilgle of the 



inoutli (i 



of tiie wings when folded 1 1 0| 



of the tail 1 1 



Inches. Lines. 



Length of the tarsus 



inner toe 



middle toe 



outer toe 



hinder toe 



H 



5 



3:1 



Female. — Colours and proportions nearly the same as those of the male. 



Althoiigli tliLs bird, tlie " Pine Pine" of Levaillant,* is well represented in tlie splendid 

 work of that traveller, yet I have thought it desirable to reproduce it here, to enable persons 

 not possessed of the work referred to, and which is not generally available to naturalists in 

 England, to compare it with tlie other South African species. It has been made the type of a 

 form by Mr. Swainson ;f but as I cannot regard it otherwise than as a Drymoiea, with modi- 

 fications, suiting it for seeking its food upon the ground, I have not entitled it Hemipteryx. 

 The Pine Pine occurs in various situations in the Cape Colony, but is never found, as far as 

 I know, to the north of the Orange River. It occurs in districts abounding with long grass, 

 and seeks its food, which consists of insects, upon the ground in places so circumstanced. It 

 rarely perches, and when it does, it is in localities where small shrubs exist. Where neither 

 shrubs nor grass sufficiently strong to support it exist, it is only to be shot while on the 

 wing ; and when it has been once or twice put to flight, it afterwards conceals itself, and cannot 

 again be flushed even by the greatest exertion. 



* Oiseaux d'Afrique, plate 131. 



t Lardner's Cyclojja^dia. (Natural History. Birds, vol. ii. page 242.) 



