of the Indian and Australian Regions. 23 



phrase (i. p. 372), — "a specimen has the currucaria or winter 

 pkmiage of the last/^ The Linnsean description agrees best 

 with the female of N. zeylonica; and to that species I have 

 referred C currucaria. Gmehn^s diagnosis is a reprint of that 

 of Linnaeus; but in his additional remarks he copies from 

 Brisson. Latham (Ind. Orn.), under C. currucaria, describes 

 nothing but Brisson^s bird. 



Certhia asiatica, Lath., was described from a drawing of an Li- 

 diau example by Major Eoberts. I have never met with any Indian 

 Arachnechthra in the plumage described under C. cirrhata, Lath., 

 stated by Shaw to have been described from one of Lady Impey's 

 drawings. C. clirysoptera, Lath., was described from a drawing in 

 which the yellow axillaries were made to look like wing-coverts. 

 C strigula, Hodgs., was founded on a male in postnuptial 

 dress. The dark sanguine pectoral band which marks the lower 

 limit of the metallic pectoral plumage is not always so evident in 

 this Sun-bird as in A. lotenia. Beichenbach (Handb, p. 295) 

 separates Tenasserim individuals under Latham's specific name 

 of mahrattensis. I am unacquainted with the Tenasserim race ; 

 but, if distinct, it must have a new title. 



2. Arachnechthra lotenia, (L.), S. N. ed. xii. i. p. 188, 

 no. 29, " Zeylona," c? adult. (1766), descr. orig. 



Certhia polita, Sparrm., Mus. Carls, fasc. iii. t. 59, patr. non 

 indie, cJ adult. (1788), descr. ovig. 



? Avis zeylonica omnicolor, Seba, Thes. i. p. 110, t, 69. 



Certhia ornnicolor, Gm., S. N. i. p. 483, no. 53 (1788), ex 

 Seba. 



? Sickle-billed Creeper, Lath., Gen. Synop. i. pt. ii. p. 705, 

 no. 6, patr. non indie, ex Mus. Brit., descr. orig. 



Certhia falcata, Gm., tom. cit. p. 470, no. 30 (1788), ex 

 Lath. 



Le Sucrier bronze, Le Vaill., Ois. d'Afr. vi. p. 170, t. 297, 

 f. 1, d, "Africa"! 



Cinnyris ceneus, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxi.p.495 (1819), 

 ex Le Vaili: t. 297, f. 1. 



Purple Indian Creeper, Edw., Gleanings, ii. p. 116, t. 265. f. 

 sup. (5 adult., patr. incert. 



