DRYMOICA SUBCINNAMOMEA. 
both mandibles inclined inwards, the apex of the bill rather blunt, the bill 
slightly curved from the base, and the culmen between the nostrils com- 
pressed and carinated. Tarsi and toes rather strong, the former anteriorly 
scutellated, posteriorly entire ; claws short, rather slender, pointed and much 
curved, the claw of the hinder toe the largest. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches* Lines. 
Length from the point of the bill to the 
base of the tail 3 0 
of the tail 2 8 
bill to the angle of mouth 0 9 
wings when folded 1 11 
Length of the tarsi .... 
outer toe . 
middle toe 
inner toe . 
hinder toe 
Inches. Lines. 
... 1 0 
0 3ft 
... 0 6 
... 0 3 
... 0 21 
The sex of the individual described not known. 
The specimen of which the foregoing is a description, the only one I have yet seen, was 
killed on the top of one of the mountains of the Kamiesberg, in Little Namaqualand. For 
some time before it was shot, it was beheld flitting from bush to bush, occasionally perching 
on their summits, at other times jumping rapidly to and fro among their branches, and as if 
engaged in quest of insects, which were found to constitute its food. 
In its general aspect, this bird has much of what characterizes birds of the group 
Drymoica , but when its individual characters are closely surveyed, it is found to want that 
which would entitle it to be classed among typical species ; or, in other words, it exhibits what 
requires it to be viewed as an aberrant form. 
