DRYMOICA PECTORALIS.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate LXXV. Fig. 2. (Male.) 
D. superne pallidfe cinereo-brunnea ; gula guttureque albis; pectore ventreque pallido-flavis, pectore 
fascia profunde brunnca notato ; rectricibus versus apicem fascia brmmea maculatis ; rostro purpureo- 
brunneo ; pedibus flavo-aurantiis. 
Loncitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudae 2 unc. 5 lin. ; caudse 2 unc. 7 lin. 
Colour. — Top of the head, ear-coverts, hack of the neck, interscapular 
feathers, and back a colour intermediate between broccoli and wood-brown. 
The lesser wing-coverts, and the primary and secondary quill-coverts red- 
dish brown faintly edged with wood-brown ; quill feathers light brownish 
red, the outer vanes narrowly edged with wood-brown. Tail feathers wood- 
brown, the tips lightest, and immediately behind the light shade a faint 
dark line, as if each was crossed by a narrow dusky bar, the two middle 
feathers without either the dark bars or the light tips. Chin, upper portion of 
throat, and sides of neck dirty white ; lower portion of throat and sides of 
neck umber-brown, in the form of a broad transverse band. Eyebrows 
slightly white. The sides of the breast light umber-brown, the flanks a light 
and dusky hair-brown ; middle of breast, belly, vent, thighs, and under tail- 
coverts straw-yellow. Bill liver-brown; tarsi and toes pale buff-orange; claws 
horn-coloured. Eyes ochrey yellow. 
Form, &c. — Figure slender ; tail long and much graduated. Bill slender- 
pointed and slightly curved, rather broad at base, and the culmen prominent 
between the nasal fosses. Wings rounded, and when folded, reach rather be- 
yond the first third of the tail, the fourth, fifth, and sixth quill feathers equal 
and longest, the third and seventh rather shorter, the second, eighth, and 
ninth equal and rather shorter than the third, the first considerably shorter 
than the second. Tarsi and toes moderately robust, the former scutellated 
