DRYMOICA TEXTRIX. 
Aves. — Plate LXXIY. Fig. 1. — (Male.) 
D. supA sordide brunnea, plumis albo aut flavo-brunneo marginatis ; infra sordide alba, pectore ventreque 
striis brunneis variegatis ; cauda brunncA, rectricibus tribus externis latcris utriusque albo-terminatis ; 
rostro pedibusque rubri-flavis. 
Lonoitddo e rostri apice ad basin cauda: 2 unc. 11 lin. ; cauda: 1 unc. 1 lin. 
Le Pinc Pinc, Levaill. Ois. d’Afriquc, pi. 131. 
Colour. — The upper parts of the head and neck, together with the inter- 
scapulars, back and shoulders, umber-brown, variegated with white and clear 
yellowish brown ; the colours constituting the variegations occur at the edges 
and tips of the feathers, which are either of the one or other of the light tints; 
in the feathers of the back they are mostly yellowish brown. The sides of 
the head and neck dirty yellowish brown, mottled with small umber-brown 
blotches. The primary and secondary quill-coverts umber-brown edged and 
tipped with pale wood-brown ; primary and secondary quill-feathers brownish 
red, the former edged, faintly, with pale wood-brown, the latter rather broadly 
with dirty greyish white. Chin and throat dirty greyish white, indistinctly 
mottled with light umber-brown ; breast and anterior portion of belly pale 
sienna-yellow distinctly mottled with oblong umber-brown spots nearly dis- 
posed in rows, middle and hinder portions of belly blueish white ; flanks and 
vent pale yellowish brown, the former variegated with longitudinal umber-brown 
stripes. The two centre tail feathers brownish red, the rest umber-brown, 
the whole edged with wood-brown, and the three outermost ones of each side 
broadly tipped with white. Bill, legs, and toes pale buff-orange, the upper 
mandible deepened from a shade of brown ; claws the same colour, rather 
brownish at the tips. Eyes reddish brown. 
Form, &c. — Figure rather robust. Bill short, rather robust towards base, 
slender and compressed towards point ; it is slightly curved, and the arch of 
the culmen anteriorly is considerable. Wings rounded, and when folded 
cover nearly the first half of the tail ; the third, fourth, fifth and sixth quill 
feathers nearly equal and longest, the second and seventh rather shorter, the 
first rudimentary and narrow ; the two innermost secondaries, and some of 
the tertiaries nearly equal in length to the primary quill feathers. Tail very 
