DRYMOICA PECTORALIS— Smith. 



AvES. — Plate LXXV. Fig. 2. (Male.) 



D. supeme pallid^ cinereo-brunnea ; gula guttureque albis; pectore ventreque pallido-flavis, pcctore 

 fascia profunde brunnea notato ; rectricibus versus apicem fascia brumiea niaculatis; rostro purpureo- 

 brunneo ; pedibus flavo-aurantiis. 



LoNGiTUDO e rostri apiee ad basin caudae 2 unc. 5 lin. ; caudae 2 unc. 7 lin. 



Colour. — Top of the head, ear-coverts, back of the neck, interscapuUir 

 feathers, and back a colour intermediate between broccoli and wood-brown. 

 The lesser wing-coverts, and the primary and secondary quill-coverts red- 

 dish brown faintly edged with wood-brown ; quill feathers light brownish 

 red, the outer vanes narrowly edged with wood-brown. Tail feathers wood- 

 brown, the tips lightest, and immediately behind the light shade a foint 

 dark line, as if each was crossed by a narrow dusky bar, the two middle 

 feathers without either the dark bars or the light tips. Chin, upper portion of 

 throat, and sides of neck dirty white ; lower portion of throat and sides o 

 neck nmber-brown, in the form of a broad transverse band. Eyebrows 

 slightly white. The sides of the breast light umber-brown, the flanks a light 

 and dusky hair-brown ; middle of breast, belly, vent, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts straw-yellow. Bill liver-brown; tarsi and toes pale buff-orange; claws 

 horn-coloured. Eyes ochrey yellow. 



Form, &c. — Figure slender ; tail long and much graduated. Bill slender- 

 pointed and slightly curved, rather broad at base, and the culmen prominent 

 between the nasal fossa:. Wings rounded, and when folded, reach rather be- 

 yond the first third of the tail, the fourth, fifth, and sixth quill feathers equal 

 and longest, the third and seventh rather shorter, the second, eighth, and 

 ninth equal and rather shorter than the third, the first considerably shorter 

 than the second. Tarsi and toes moderately robust, the former scutellated 



