DRYMOICA LEVAILLANTII.— Smith. 
Avec. — Plate LXXIII. — Fig. 2. (Male.) 
D. capite cerviceque superne pallido castaneis, brunneo-strigatis ; interscapuliis dorsoque profunde 
brunneis, pinnis flavo-brunneo marginatis ; rectricibus brunneo-rubris pallide castaneo-marginatis ; 
partibus inferioribus pallide flavo-brunneis ; rectricibus brunneis externe castaneo-marginatis, 
plumarum apicibus pallide flavo-brunneis ; rostro livido-brunneo ; pedibus rubri-flavis ; oculis 
castaneis. 
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudse 2 unc. 5 lin. ; caudse 2 unc. 8 lin. 
Colour. — The upper parts of the head, and the upper and lateral parts of 
the neck, bright chesnut-brown, the two first variegated with umber-brown 
stripes, one along the centre of each feather ; interscapulars, back, and tail 
coverts liver-brown, each feather edged on both sides with pale wood-brown ; 
lesser wing coverts umber-brown, broadly edged and tipped with pale 
broccoli-brown. Primary and secondary quill coverts, and the tertiary quill 
feathers, liver-brown, and distinctly edged externally with pale wood-brown ; 
primary and secondary quill feathers light brownish red, edged with chesnut- 
brown. Under parts pale wood-brown, the throat lightest, and inclined to 
white. Tail feathers light umber-brown, margined externally with pale 
chesnut-brown, and broadly tipped with dull wood-brown ; behind the light 
points each feather is marked with a circumscribed liver-brown blotch, which 
is much darker than the general colour of the feather, and is most readily 
seen on the under surface of the tail. Eyebrows and sides of the head wood- 
brown. Bill horn-coloured, the lower mandible lightest ; legs and toes pale 
buff-orange ; claws horn-coloured. Eyes deep chesnut-brown. 
Form, &c.— Figure rather robust; tail moderately long and graduated; 
bill slightly curved, triangular at the base, compressed towards the point, 
culmen considerably arched, wings rounded, and when folded reach ovei the 
first third of the tail ; the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth nearly equal and 
longest, the second rather shorter, and nearly equal in length to the 
secondary quill feathers ; the first about half the length of the thiid, and very 
narrow. Tarsi robust, anteriorly scutellated, posteriorly entire ; toes rather 
