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DRYMOICA CHINIANA.—S m ith .
A vesY—P late LXXIX. (Male.)
D. capite cerviceque supernè cinnamomeis, plumis flavo-brunrieo-marginatis; dorso brunneo-rubri, plumis
pallide griseo-brunneo-marginatis; rectricibus, brunneo-rubris apicibus griseo brunneis et pone fusco-
fasciatis; gul& et ventre albis; pectoris ventrisque lateribus griseo-bruneo flavo-tinctis; gutture
pectoreque ochraceo-albis; rostro supeme flavo-brunneo infra subflavo; pedibus rubro-flavis.
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basiu caudas 2 unc. 10| lin; caudaj 2 unc. 10£ lin.
C o lo u r .— The upper surface of the head, and the back and upper parts of
the sides of neck, intermediate between yellowish brown and hyacinth-red
(a bright cinnamon-brown), the feathers narrowly edged and tipped with light
yellowish brown. The interscapulars, the lesser wing coyerts, and the
feathers of the back brownish red, each edged and tipped with wood-brown.
Rump and upper tail coverts pale broccoli-brown, the feathers narrowly
edged and tipped with light wood-brown. The primary and secondary quill
coverts umber-brown, the former narrowly edged, externally, and the latter
broadly edged and tipped with wood-brown. The primary and secondary
quill feathers brownish red, the outer vanes of the primaries, towards quills,
broadly edged with yellowish brown, towards the tips narrowly with wood-
brown, the tips the same colour; secondary quill feathers edged externally
with a brighter tint of yellowish brown, and towards and at tips wood-brown ;
the tertiary quill feathers umber-brown, edged and tipped with yellowish
brown, passing, close to margins, into wood-brown; the inner vanes of all
the quill feathers towards base sienna-yellow. Tail, — the two middle
feathers yellowish brown, lightest at the edges, the other feathers light
brownish red, brightened towards edges with yellowish brown, the tips dull
wood-brown, and behind them a broad bar of umber-brown. Chin and
centre of belly white; throat and centre of breast pale ochrey-white; the
side of the neck and breast, the flanks, and the under tail-coverts pale hair-
brown tinged with sienna-yellow. BillE-upper mandible yellowish brown,
shaded at base and near the tip with dull chesnut-brown; lower mandible