DRYMOICA SUBRUFICAPILLA.— Smith. 
Aves. — Plate LXXYI. Fig. 2. (Female.) 
D. capite cerviceque supra castaneis brunneo-striatis ; dorso pallide brunneo, subcinereo-variegato ; 
partibus inferioribus flavo-cinereis, pectore leviter brunneo-notato ; rectricibus versus apicem 
brunneo-fasciatis ; rostro castaneo profunde brunneo-umbrato ; tarsis rubro-brunneis ; pedibus flavo- 
brunneis. 
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudse 3 unc. 1 lin ; caudse 2 unc. 3 lin. 
Colour. — The upper parts of the head and the back, and the sides of the 
neck near to the head, light chesnut-brown, striped with umber-brown along 
the centre of each feather ; the lower parts of the back and the sides of the 
neck, the interscapulars, the lesser wing-coverts, and the back umber-brown, 
variegated with a colour intermediate between ash-grey and broccoli-brown, 
each feather being so broadly edged and tipped with the latter as even to 
constitute it the predominant colour. Tail dull reddish brown, all the 
feathers tipped with wood-brown, the two centre ones very faintly, and all 
the others have, each, a broad transverse umber-brown bar immediately be- 
hind the light tip. The primary and secondary wing-coverts umber- brown, 
margined externally, and tipped with pale wood-brown ; the primary, se- 
condary, and tertiary quill feathers intermediate, between brownish red and 
umber- brown, the tertiaries darkest, — the primary and secondary feathers 
towards the quills narrowly margined with light chesnut-brown ; the 
tertiaries are edged and tipped with wood-brown. Chin, throat, middle of 
breast and belly pale yellowish grey, passing in some places into white, the 
breast faintly freckled with pale brown ; sides of breast, flanks, vent, and 
under tail-coverts pale hair-brown. Bill chesnut-brown, shaded with umber- 
brown, the lower mandible, towards its base, yellowish brown. Tarsi pale 
reddish brown, passing towards toes into yellowish brown ; claws yellowish 
brown, tinted with light reddish brown. 
Form, &c. — Figure rather robust. Bill slender, slightly arched and pointed; 
tail graduated, and in some specimens is much longer than in the one 
