DRYMOICA CHERINA. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. 
Lines. 
Inches. 
Lines 
Length from the point of the bill 
Length of the tarsus . . 
0 
to the tip of the tail .... 
3 
11 
of the outer toe 
4 
of the bill to the angle of the 
of the middle toe 
0 
H 
mouth 
0 
n 
of the inner toe . 
H 
of the wings when folded . . 
1 
ii 
of the hinder toe 
31 
of the tail 
1 
n 
Male. — Not known. 
This species occurs within the 
limits 
of the 
Cape Colony ; but is a 
rare bird as compared 
with D. textrix. Like the latter, it inhabits situations covered with strong grass, and seeks its 
food, which consists of small insects, either on the ground or upon the grass itself, along the 
stalks of which it runs with great facility. It also perches upon small shrubs. The absence 
of anything like brown spots on the breast forms at once a character by which it is distin- 
guishable from D. textrix, and the colour of the upper parts, added to the greater size of the 
bill and feet, constitute diagnostic characters by which it is to be recognized from D. terrestris. 
