D RY M 0 I C A CA P E N S I S .
D E Y M O I C A S U B R U F I C A P I L L A .
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DRYMOICA CAPENSIS.—S m it h .
A ves.—P late L X X V I.-—F ig . 1 . (Male.)
D. supra cmereo-viridi-flava, infra alba flavo-tincta; gutture, pectoreque maculis brunneis' subovatis
variegatis; remigibus brunneis exteme cinereo-flavo-marginatis; rectricibus, duabus mediis exceptis,
albo-terminatis et post maculas albas fascia nigro-brunnea notatis; superciliis subalbis; rostro rubro-
brunneo; pedibus rubro-flavis.
Longitudo ab apice rostri ad caudee basin 2 unc. 5 lin .; caudse 2 unc. 6 lin.
Colour.—The upper surface of the head, the back and side of the neck,
the interscapulars, the back, the tail coverts, and the tail feathers intermediate,
between broccoli and yellowish brown; the points of all the tail
feathers excepting those of the two middle ones narrowly margined with
wood-brown. The primary and secondary quill coverts, and the primary and
secondary quill feathers, dull umber-brown; the secondary quill coverts and
all the quill feathers narrowly edged, externally, with deep wood-brown ; the
edges of wings, anteriorly, white. The chin, throat, and under parts of
body white, with a yellowish tinge, amounting at the centre of the belly
almost to a straw-yellow and all the under parts, excepting the middle of the
belly and the flanks, are variegated with short, subovate, umber-brown stripes,
disposed nearly in longitudinal rows; the flanks are a uniform dull hair-
brown. Eyebrows slightly white. Bill rich chesnut-brown, shaded with dull
liver-brown ; feet pale reddish yellow.
F orm, &c.— Figure moderately robust. Bill slender, slightly curved and
pointed, rather broad at the base. Tail rather lengthened and rounded or
slightly graduated. Wings rounded, and when folded reach to the second
fourth of the tail, the fourth and fifth quill feathers rather the longest,
the third and sixth slightly shorter, the second considerably shorter than the
third, and the first rather more than half the length of the fourth; the
secondary and tertiary quill feathers considerably shorter than the primary