DRYMOICA ABERRANS.— Smith. 



AvES. — Plate LXXVIII. (Female.) 



D. capite cerviceque supcrne piillide castancis ; Jorso griseo-brunneo, flavo-brunneo tincto, ct obscure 

 brunneo strigata ; partibus inferioribus pallide viridi-flavis ; rcctricibus ad apicem pallidis et fasciis 

 brunneis obscure notatis ; superciliis pallide flavis ; rostro superne aurantio-brunneo, inferno pallide 

 flavo ; pedibus pallide rubro-flavis. 



LoNGiTUDO e rostri apice ad basin caudaa 2 line. S?) lin ; cauda; 3 unc. 2 lin. 



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

 chesnut-brown, deepened with hyacinth-red; the interscapulars and feathers 

 of back intermediate between yellowish and broccoli-brown, each with an 

 indistinct uniber-brown shade in the course of the shaft ; the luider parts a 

 pale nisty olive-yellow, the throat and chin lightest ; the sides of breast and 

 the flanks tinged with hair-brown. Lesser wing-coverts dull umber-brown, 

 edged with dull yellowish brown. The primary, secondary, and tertiary quill 

 feathers light brownish red ; the primaries and secondaries edged towards 

 quills with pale chesnut-brown ; the tertiaries edged and tipped with dull 

 yellowish brown. Tail feathers coloured like the back, lightest at the points, 

 and behind the light points a faint indication on each of a dark spot or bar; 

 the two middle ones edged externally and internally, the rest only externally 

 with yellowish brown. Eyebrows pale sienna-yellow, not distinctly in- 

 dicated. Bill ; — upper mandible light orange-coloured brown, shaded with 

 deep reddish brown, lower mandible straw-yellow. Legs and toes pale red- 

 dish yellow. 



Form. — Figure rather robust ; tail lengthened and graduated. Bill rather 

 strong and moderately acute, the upper mandible considerably curved to- 

 wards the point ; the sides towards base expanded, towards point perpendi- 

 cular. Wings rounded, and when folded reach rather beyond the first third 

 of the tail ; the fourth and fifth feathers equal and longest, the third and sixth 

 a little shorter, the second about half an inch shorter than the fourth, and the 

 first as much shorter than the second; the secondary and tertiary quill feathers 

 a little shorter than the primaries. Tarsi strong, scutellated anteriorly, entire 



