DRYMOICA CAPENSIS— Smith. 



AvES.— Plate LXXVI.— Fig. 1. (Male.) 



D. supra cinereo-viridi-flava, infra alba flavo-tlncta ; gutturo, pcctoreqne maculis bninneis subovatis 

 variegatis ; remigibus bruniieis externe cinereo-flavo-niarginatis ; rectricibus, duabus mediis exceptis, 

 albo-terniinatis et post niaculas albas fascia uigro-brunnea notatis ; superciliis subalbis ; rostro rubro- 

 bruuneo; pcdibus rubro-flavis. 



LoxGiTUDo ab apice rostri ad caudte basin 2 unc. 5 lin. ; caudae 2 unc. G lin. 



Colour. — The upper surface of the head, the back and side of the neck, 

 the interscapulars, the back, the tail coverts, and the tail feathers inter- 

 mediate, between broccoli and yellowish brown ; the points of all the tail 

 feathers excepting those of the two middle ones narrowly margined with 

 wood-brown. The primary and secondary quill coverts, and the primary and 

 secondary quill feathers, dull umber-brown ; the secondary quill coverts and 

 all the quill feathers narrowly edged, externally, with deep wood-brown , the 

 edges of wings, anteriorly, white. The chin, throat, and under parts of 

 body white, with a yellowish tinge, amounting at the centre of the belly 

 almost to a straw-yellow and all the under parts, excepting the middle of the 

 belly and the flanks, are variegated with short, subovate, umber-brown stripes, 

 disposed nearly in longitudinal rows ; the flanks are a uniform dull hair- 

 brown. Eyebrows slightly white. Bill rich chesnut-brown, shaded with dull 

 liver-brown ; feet pale reddish yellow. 



Form, &c.— Figure moderately robust. Bill slender, slightly curved and 

 pointed, rather broad at the base. Tail rather lengthened and rounded or 

 slightly graduated. Wings rounded, and when folded reach to the second 

 fourth of the tail, the fourth and fifth quill feathers rather the longest, 

 the third and sixth slightly shorter, the second considerably shorter than the 

 third, and the first rather more than half the length of the fourth; the 

 secondary and tertiary quill feathers considerably shorter than the primary 



