DRYMOICA PALLIDA. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from the point of the bill to 
the tip of the tail 5 11 
of the hill to the angle of the 
mouth 0 7 
of the wings when folded . . 2 1 3 
of the tail 3 4 
Female. — Unknown. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length of the tarsus 1 0 
of the outer toe 0 3 
of the middle toe 0 4g 
of the inner toe 0 3 
of the hinder toe 0 3 
This species is but rarely obtained, and the only specimens I possess were procured about 
three hundred miles to the north of Cape Town, in the Namaqua country. It occasionally 
occurs in thickets, but more generally upon dwarf trees, in the vicinity of streams, and thiough 
these it passes rapidly from branch to branch in pursuit of insects, which form its chief food. 
