DRYMOICA CAPENSIS.— Smith. 
Aves.— Plate LXXVI. — Fig. 1. (Male.) 
D. supra cinereo-viridi-flava, infra alba flavo-tincta ; gutture, pcctorccpio maculis brunneis subovatis 
yariegatis ; remigibus brunneis exteme cinereo-flavo-marginatis ; rectricibus, duabus mediis exceptis, 
albo-terarinatis et post maculas albas fascia nigro-brunnea notatis ; superciliis subalbis ; rostro rubro- 
brunneo ; pcdibus rubro-flavis. 
Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caudcc basin 2 unc. 5 lin. ; caudse 2 unc. 6 lin. 
Colour. — The upper surface of the head, the back and side of the neck, 
the interscapulars, the back, the tail coverts, and the tail feathers inter- 
mediate, between broccoli and yellowish brown ; the points of all the tail 
feathers excepting those of the two middle ones narrowly margined with 
wood-brown. The primary and secondary quill coverts, and the primary and 
secondary quill feathers, dull umber-brown ; the secondary quill coverts and 
all the quill feathers narrowly edged, externally, with deep wood-brown ; the 
edges of wings, anteriorly, white. The chin, throat, and under parts of 
body white, with a yellowish tinge, amounting at the centre of the belly 
almost to a straw-yellow and all the under parts, excepting the middle of the 
belly and the flanks, are variegated with short, subovate, umber-brown stripes, 
disposed nearly in longitudinal rows ; the flanks are a uniform dull hair- 
brown. Eyebrows slightly white. Bill rich chesnut-brown, shaded with dull 
liver-brown ; feet pale reddish yellow. 
Form, &c.— Figure moderately robust. Bill slender, slightly curved and 
pointed, rather broad at the base. Tail rather lengthened and rounded or 
slightly graduated. Wings rounded, and when folded reach to the second 
fourth of the tail, the fourth and fifth quill feathers rather the longest, 
the third and sixth slightly shorter, the second considerably shorter than the 
third, and the first rather more than half the length of the fourth; the 
secondary and tertiary quill feathers considerably shorter than the primary 
