DRYMOICA RUFICAPILLA. 
toes short and strong ; claws slender, curved, and pointed, the claw of the 
hinder toe longest and strongest. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from the point of the bill to 
the tip of the tail 4 5 
of the bill to the angle of the 
mouth 0 6^ 
of the wings when folded ... 2 1 J 
of the tail 1 11 
Inches. Lines. 
Length of the tarsus 0 10J 
of the inner toe 0 3 
of the middle toe 0 4J 
of the outer toe 0 3 
of the hinder toe 0 2f 
Female. — Head the same colour as the back ; in other respects the colours 
of the two sexes are the same. 
This bird occurs in various situations in the interior of the Cape Colony, and is usually 
found among brushwood or upon dwarf trees. It feeds upon small insects, and in quest of 
those it is to be seen flitting from branch to branch with great rapidity. As compared with 
many of the other species, it may be considered as rather a rare bird, and it rarely happens 
that more than one or two specimens are procured in any given locality which it is known to 
inhabit. 
