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bus maculis nigris ad pectus ferè .extendentibus utrinque 
instructis. Remiges fusco-brunneæ, pogoniis externis basi 
albis, deinde fascia fusco-nigrâ notâque ferrugined approx- 
imante instructis : subtus, tectricesque inferiores, brunnes- 
centi-fuscæ. Rectrices brunneæ, rhachibus nigris ; subtus 
brunnescenti-fuscæ. Rostrum nigrum. Pedes pallidé fusci. 
Longitudo corporis, Ty; ale a carpo ad remigem quin- 
tam, 314; caude, 3%; rostri ad frontem, i, ad rictum, + 
tarsi, 11. 
In honorem Ornithologici celeberrimi, Domini C. J. Temminck, 
Societatis Linneane Socii Peregrini, qui primùm hoc genus 
characteribus illustravit, hæc species nominatur. 
M. Temminck in his ** Manuel” refers to a species which he 
gives as the type of this genus, and which he describes as dark- 
brown above with black spots, the male having a red throat 
surrounded with black ; the female with a white throat. We 
suspect our bird to be the female of this species. M. Temminck 
has not named his bird; and we consequently take this oppor- 
tunity of assigning it the name of a naturalist, to whom we are 
indebted for the characters of the group itself, and for many 
other valuable additions to Ornithology. 
The Society's specimen was presented to them by Mr. Brown, 
who met with it near Hat Hill in the year 1804. 
Genus. CLIMACTERIS*. Temm. 
1. Prcumnus. C. fusco-griseus, alis maculá humerali albidá, 
remigibus maculis media ferrugined subapicalique fusco-nigrá 
fasciatis ; subtus pallidior, abdomine strigis albidis pese 
ginatis lineato. 
* T take this opportunity of, correcting an error in the 14th volume of these Trans- 
actions (p. 459.), where I stated that the tail-feathers of the birds of this genus were 
rigid, like those of the true Certhia. "They are soft and pliant, as in the generality of 
birds. —V. à 
Certhia 
