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WHITE-EYEBROWED LONGTAIL. 
Drymoica supcrdliosa ., Swains. 
PLATE II. 
Light brown, unspotted ; eyebrows and plumage beneath, 
white ; belly, thighs, and flanks, ferruginous •, lateral tail- 
feathers blackish at the end, and tipt with white ; lateral 
toes somewhat unequal. 
Tiie greater number of the small African Warblers, 
are little wren-like birds, something resembling in 
their general cast of colours our white-throat, and 
like that clothed in very plain colours : they con- 
stitute a very peculiar group, for which we proposed, 
many years ago, the name of Drymoica; none of the 
species, of which there are very many, have been 
found in the new world. The corresponding group 
in Asia is P tinea ; the chief distinction between 
them being this, that in Drymoica the two lateral 
toes arc equal ; whereas, in the Indian group, the 
inner toe is much shorter than the outer, the latter 
being connected to the first joint of the middle toe. 
Both, however, have short rounded wings, and their 
soft tails are more or less rounded, and sometimes 
graduated. 
As we do not find this species, the only one we 
