DRYMOICA SUBSTRIATA.— Smith * 
Aves. — Plate LXXII.— Fig. 1. (Female.) 
D. supra flavo-brunnea colore rubiginosa tincta; infra oehraeeo- alba; pectore striis brunneis variegate , 
remigibus brunneo-rubris pallide griseo-brunneo-marginatis ; rectricibus griseo-brunneis colore rubi- 
ginosa lavatis ; rostro colore corneo ; tarsis, pedibus, unguibusque rubri-flavis. 
Longitodo e rostri apice ad basin caudce 2 unc. 8 lin. ; can dee 3 unc. 
Colour.— The top of the head, the sides of the neck and the shoulders light 
broccoli-brown ; the back of the head, the upper parts of the neck, the 
interscapulars, back, and tail coverts a uniform rusty yellowish brown. 
Sides of head and ear-coverts pale wood-brown, the latter faintly streaked 
with dull umber-brown ; eyebrows white, prolonged behind the eyes. Chin, 
throat, centre of breast, and belly, ochrey white, the breast variegated with 
several narrow, longitudinal, umber-brown stripes, one along the centie of 
each feather ; flanks and vent light yellowish brown. Primary and secondary 
quill coverts, and the quill feathers, pale brownish red, faintly margined with 
wood-brown ; some of the inner secondaries and the tertiaries broadly 
margined with yellowish brown. Tail a rusty broccoli-brown, the middle 
feathers darkest. Bill a dark horn-colour ; legs, toes, and claws pale buff- 
orange, the latter brown at the points. 
Form, &c. — Figure slender and lengthened. Bill slender and nearly 
straight, the culmen slightly arched, particularly towards the point ; it is 
triangular at the base, and compressed towards the tip: nostrils small, 
* Having carefully compared all the species of this genus which I possess, with the species described 
and represented by Levaillant, (Oiseaux d’Afrique,) I am not able to satisfy myself of the identity of 
more than one of mine, the “ Pine Pine;' plate 131 ; hence I have preferred figuring all the species which 
1 possess rather than incur the risk of including two species under one name. The species I have figured 
as Drymoica ruficapilla is, I suspect, identical with Le Rousse Tete, Levaillant, plate 124, but the 
rest I am disposed to regard as specifically different from any described by him. 1 am sometimes disposed 
to believe that the renowned traveller, whom no one can respect and honour more than I do, has 
occasionally from accident, probably through an intermixture of specimens, considered birds as natives of 
Sou th Africa which belong to other countries ; and it is only by presuming such to have happened, that I 
can account for my never having been able to procure or hear of various species which Levaillant affirms 
are found in it. 
