ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
DRYMOICA EltYTHItOPTERA, Jabdine. 
This species formed part of Dr. Gordon’s collection of birds from 
M estern Africa, but bad no number of reference to his notes at- 
tached. We do not find any description agreeing with it in the 
works where birds from that country are mentioned ; and the con- 
spicuous rufous colour of the wings, from which we hare named it, 
would have been an easy mark of detection. There is a great 
alliance between this bird and a few others, to the Indian form 
which we know under the designation of Prinia, and which, if the 
characters are found to agree, must be from priority the name used 
for the whole. In Africa, they are extremely numerous, much 
moie so than in India; the greater number of them are larger, 
stionger, and more robust, and for the present, we prefer retaining 
Di ymoica for the African form to joining them with Prinia. 
The forehead, back, and shoulders, are a pale reddish-grey, very 
distinctly separated from the light under parts. The shoulders, 
essei co\ ers, and edges of the quills and secondaries, with the upper 
ai co\eis, are clear reddish chestnut-brown ; quills and second- 
aries, with the tail, umber-brown ; the latter, with a white tip and 
aarii bar succeeding it, much graduated and of a slender form. 
w]] e C r! u and tliroat nearl y pure white, gradually shading into 
is wood-brown, which becomes darkest on the vent, thighs, 
thp I” 1 ^ l ail ; C0VerS ! bliI is of considerable strength, black, except 
yello^ILbrotn. “ laXllIa ’ " ydW ; tarsi ’ feet ’ and claWS ’ 
taiflY; § 35 b ' U t0 forehea<1 ’ i; t0 8*Pe»8; m g, Ui 
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