DRYMOICA AFFINIS. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from the point of the bill to 
the tip of the tail 4 7| 
of the bill to the angle of the 
mouth 0 
of the wings when folded ... 2 0 
of the tail 2 6 
Inches. Lines. 
Length of the tarsus 0 9 
of the outer toe 0 3 
of the middle toe 0 4J 
of the inner toe 0 3 
of the hinder toe 0 3j 
Male. — Not known. 
Inhabits dry flats in the interior of South Africa, and flits to and fro in search of insects 
amongst the shrubs with which they are more or less coated. It is a rare bird in the parts of 
the country which have been yet explored ; hence, I infer, that the head-quarters of the species 
will he found beyond the districts which have been traversed. This species exhibits a con- 
siderable resemblance to Drymoica pallida, but when the two are compared together, very 
palpable differences are to be discovered. In the present species the tail-feathers are tipped 
with white, and each has behind the white tip a dark umber-brown bar; in D. pallida the 
feathers are uniformly of one colour. The bill of D. affinis is longer and stronger than that of 
JD. pallida, though the bird itself is smaller, and the tarsi of the latter are longer and stronger 
than those of the former. 
