DRYMOICA AFFINIS.— Smith. 
Aves.— Plate LXXYII. Fig. 1. (Female.) 
D. capite cerviceque superne griseo-brunncis ; intorscapuliis dorsoque grisco-bninneis, flavo brunneo-tinctis ; 
partibus inferioribus flavo-albis ; abdominis lateribus tectricibusque caudse inferioribus ochraceis ; 
remigibus rubro-brunnois externc flavo brunneo-marginatis ; rectricibus pallide rubro-brunneis albo- 
terminatis et versus apicem nigro-brunneo-fasciatis ; rostro brunneo versus basin mandibulse flavo- 
brunneo ; pedibus rubro-flavis. 
Longitddo ab apice rostri ad basin caudre 4 unc. 7.*r lin; caudse 2 unc. 6 lin. 
Colour. — The upper surface of the head and the back and sides of the 
neck broccoli-brown, faintly tinged with yellowish brown, and some ot 
the feathers of the former indistinctly streaked with pale umber-brown ; in- 
terscapulars and back intermediate between broccoli and yellowish brown, and 
slightly glossed with oil-green : rump and upper tail coverts pale yellowish 
brown. Chin, throat, centre of breast and belly yellowish white ; the sides 
of the breast the same colour as the head ; the flanks, vent, under tail coverts 
and thighs rusty sienna-yellow. Lesser wing-coverts, primary and secondary 
quill-coverts, and the primary, secondary and tertiary quill-feathers brownish 
red, the lesser wing-coverts and quill-coverts edged and tipped with pale 
yellowish brown, and the quill-feathers margined externally with light yellow- 
ish brown. Tail feathers a light dull reddish brown, edged with yellowish 
brown, and tipped with white, each feather behind the light tip with a broad 
transverse brownish-red bar. Bill umber-brown, the base of lower mandible 
wood-brown. Tarsi and toes reddish-yellow ; claws the same colour, tinted 
towards the points with brown. 
Form, & c. Figure slender, tail elongated and much graduated. Bill 
rather weak, short, nearly straight and pointed, the culmen towards apex of 
mandible slightly arched. Wings rounded, and when folded reach to the 
commencement of the second-third of the tail, fourth, fifth, and sixth quill- 
feathers equal and longest, third and seventh slightly shorter, second and 
ninth equal and considerably shorter than third, first rather more than half 
the length of the second ; secondary and tertiary quill-feathers considerably 
shorter than the longest primaries. Tarsi and toes rather slender, the tarsi 
anteriorly faintly scutellated, posteriorly entire ; claws weak, short, mode- 
rately curved, and pointed. 
