DRYMOICA FASCIOLATA. 
slightly curved towards the apex, the latter sharp pointed, the base some- 
what depressed, the culmen between nostrils carinated, anterior to nostrils 
rounded ; the edges of the upper mandible in front of the nostrils slightly 
inclined inwards. Tarsi and toes rather robust, the former anteriorly scu- 
tellated, posteriorly entire ; claws short, much curved and pointed, the claw of 
the posterior toe the largest. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. 
Length from the point of the bill to the 
Lines. 
Length of the tarsus 
Inches. 
0 
Lines. 
10 
base of the tail 
3 
0 
outer toe 
0 
H 
of the tail 
2 
0 
middle toe 
0 
H 
bill to the angle of mouth 
0 
9 
inner toe . 
0 
n 
wings when folded 
2 
6 
hinder toe 
0 
3 
The colours of the male not known. 
Inhabits districts covered thinly with small underwood, and in such places is found 
moving about from bush to hush in search of its food, which it appears to take partly from the 
tops of the bushes, and partly from the branches among which it rapidly passes. Only three 
specimens were obtained during the progress of the expedition party, all of them females, and 
were procured on the open flat plains to the north-east of Latakoo. 
