DRYMOICA AFFINIS.— Smith. 



AvES.— Plate LXXVII. Fig. 1. (Female.) 



D. capite cerviceque superne griseo-brunneis ; interscapuliis dorsoque griseo-bninneis, flavo bninneo-tinctis ; 



partibus inferioribus flavo-albis ; abdominis lateribus tectricibusque cauda inferioribus ochraceis ; 



remigibus rubro-brunneis externe flavo brunneo-marginatis ; rectricibus pallide rubro-brunneis albo- 



terminatis et versus apicem nigro-brunneo-fasciatis ; rostro brunneo versus basin mandibute flavo- 



brunneo ; pedibus rubro-flavis. 

 LoNGiTUDo ab apice rostri ad basin caudse 4 unc. 71 lin; caudse 2 unc. 6 lin. 



Colour. — The upper surface of the head and the back and sides of the 

 neck broccoli-brown, faintly tinged with yellowish brown, and some of 

 the feathers of the former indistinctly streaked with pale umber-brown ; in- 

 terscapulars and back intermediate between broccoli and yellowish brown, and 

 slightly glossed with oil-green : rump and upper tail coverts pale yellowish 

 brown. Chin, throat, centre of breast and belly yellowish white ; the sides 

 of the breast the same colour as the head ; the flanks, vent, under tail coverts 

 and thighs rusty sienna-yellow. Lesser wing-coverts, primary and secondary 

 quill-coverts, and the primary, secondary and tertiary quill-feathers brownish 

 red, the lesser wing-coverts and quill-coverts edged and tipped with pale 

 yellowish brown, and the quill-feathers margined externally with light yellow- 

 ish brown. Tail feathers a light dull reddish brown, edged with yellowish 

 brown, and tipped with white, each feather behind the light tip with a broad 

 transverse brownish-red bar. Bill umber-brown, the base of lower mandible 

 wood-brown. Tarsi and toes reddish-yellow ; claws the same colour, tinted 

 towards the points with brown. 



Form, &c.— Figure slender, tail elongated and much graduated. Bill 

 rather weak, short, nearly straight and pointed, the culmen towards apex of 

 mandible slightly arched. Wings rounded, and when folded reach to the 

 commencement of the second-third of the tail, fourth, fifth, and sixth quill- 

 feathers equal and longest, third and seventh slightly shorter, second and 

 ninth equal and considerably shorter than third, first rather more than half 

 the length of the second ; secondary and tertiary quill-feathers considerably 

 shorter than the longest primaries. Tarsi and toes rather slender, the tarsi 

 anteriorly faintly scutellated, posteriorly entire ; claws weak, short, mode- 

 rately curved, and pointed. 



