DRYMOICA RUFICAPILLA. 
Aves. — Plate LXXIII. Fig. 1. (Male.) 
D. capite cerviceque supeme pallide castaneis ; interscapuliis, dorso, caudaque brunneis flavo-brunneo 
lavatis; remigibus pallide brunneo-rubris pallide flavo-brunneo-marginatis ; gula, gutture, pectoris 
ventrisque medio pallide stramineis ; capitis, cervicis, pectoris ventrisque lateribus pallide griseo- 
brunneis ; rostro flavo-brunneo ; pedibus rubri-flavis ; oculis rubri-aurantiis. 
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudee 2 unc. 6 lin. ; caudse 1 unc. 11 lin. 
Le Rousse Tete, Lemill. Ois. d’Afrique, pi. 124.? 
Colour. — Top of the head and upper parts of the neck pale chesnut- 
brown, the latter lightest ; interscapulars, back, and tail coverts pale broc- 
coli-brown washed with yellowish brown ; tail the same colour, but brighter 
and the feathers margined with light yellowish brown of a dull hue. Lesser 
quill coverts light brownish red, broadly margined and tipped with pale 
broccoli-brown. Primary and secondary quill coverts, and primary and 
secondary quill feathers pale brownish red, margined more or less broadly 
with pale yellowish brown, a few of the secondaries and the tertiary feathers 
edged with pale chesnut-brown. Chin, throat, centre of breast and belly, 
pale straw-yellow ; sides of head, neck, breast, belly, and vent, pale greyish 
brown. Bill yellowish brown, the upper mandible shaded with umber- 
brown; legs and toes pale buff-orange; claws a pale horn colour. Eyes 
bright reddish orange. 
Form, &c.— Figure slender, tail rather short and slightly graduated. Bill 
nearly straight, and rather slender, towards point compressed, towards base 
triangular ; wings rounded, and when folded reach over the first fourth 
of the tail ; the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh quill feathers nearly 
equal and longest; the second considerably shorter, and the first narrow and 
about half the length of the second ; the tertiaries as long as the primary 
quill feathers. Tarsi rather strong, anteriorly scutellated, posteriorly entire ; 
