Length 19-26cm - weight about 43g. Reddish-brown with white underparts - Distinguished by four longitudinal stripes on the back. Diurnal and occuring in all parts of the reserve. Prefers fairly dense cover and feeds mostly on green vegetable matter - seeds and insects. Also likes the soft parts of the bracts and flowers of proteas thus becoming an important agent in the pollination of some species. They excavate burrows - sometimes to a depth of 50cm.