DRYMOICA AFFINIS. 



DIMENSIONS. 



Inches. Lines. 

 Length from the point of the bill to 



the tip of the tail 4 7J 



of the bill to the angle of the 



mouth 



of the wings when folded ... 2 



of tlie tail 2 





 6 



Inches. Lines. 



Length of the tarsus 9 



of the outer toe -'5 



of the middle toe 4 J 



of the inner toe 3 



of the hinder toe 31 



Male. — Not known. 



Inhabits dry flats in the interior of South Africa, and flits to and fro in search of insects 

 amongst the shrubs with which they are more or less coated. It is a rare bird in the parts of 

 the country which have been yet explored ; hence, I infer, that the head-quarters of the species 

 will be found beyond the districts which have been traversed. This species exhibits a con- 

 siderable resemblance to Drymoica pallida, but when the two are compared together, very 

 palpable differences are to be discovered. In the present species the tail-feathers are tipped 

 with white, and each has behind the white tip a dark umber-brown bar; in D. pallida the 

 feathers are uniformly of one colour. The bill of D, affinis is longer and stronger than that of 

 D. pallida, though the bird itself is smaller, and the tarsi of tlie latter are longer and stronger 

 than those of the former. 



