1. DRYMOI C A T EXT R IX ..
Z D.RYMOICA TERRE STRIS .
(Aves_Plate 74.)
A v e s .— P l a t e LXXIY. F i g . 1 .— ( M a l e . )
D. supr& sordide brunnea, plumis albo aut flavo-brunneo marginatis; infr&. sordide alba, pectore ventreque
striis brunneis variegatis; camda brunned, rectricibus tribus extemis lateris utriusque albo-terminatis;
rostro pedibusque rubri-flavis.
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudse 2 unc. 11 lin.; caudas 1 unc. 1 lin.
Lb P inc P ino, Levaill. Ois. d’ Afrique, pi. 131.
C o l o u r .—The upper parts of the head and neck, together with the interscapulars,
back and shoulders, umber-brown, variegated with white and clear
yellowish brown ; the colours constituting the variegations occur at the edges
and tips of the feathers, which are either of the one or other of the light tints;
in the feathers of the back they are mostly yellowish brown. The sides of
the head and neck dirty yellowish brown, mottled with small umber-brown
blotches. The primary and secondary quill-coverts umber-brown edged and
tipped with pale wood-brown ; primary and secondary quill-feathers brownish
red, the former edged, faintly, with pale wood-brown, the latter rather broadly
with dirty greyish white. Chin and throat dirty greyish white, indistinctly
mottled with light umber-brown ; breast and anterior portion of belly pale
sienna-yellow distinctly mottled with oblong umber-brown spots nearly disposed
in rows, middle and hinder portions of belly blueish white ; flanks and
vent pale yellowish brown, the former variegated with longitudinal umber-brown
stripes. The two centre tail feathers brownish red, the rest umber-brown,
the whole edged with wood-brown, and the three outermost ones of each side
broadly tipped with white. Bill, legs, and toes pale buff-orange, the upper
mandible deepened from a shade of brown; claws the same colour, rather
brownish at the tips. Eyes reddish brown.
F o r m , & c .—Figure rather robust. Bill short, rather robust towards base,
slender and compressed towards point; it is slightly curved, and the arch of
the culmen anteriorly is considerable. Wings rounded, and when folded
cover nearly the first half of the ta il; the third, fourth, fifth and sixth quill
feathers nearly equal and longest, the second and seventh rather shorter, the
first rudimentary and narrow; the two innermost secondaries, and some of
the tertiaries nearly equal in length to the primary quill feathers. Tail very