248 SYNOPSIS. 



1823. Sucrier a plastron rouge, Le Vaill. Ois. cVAfr. 

 vi. p. 176, pi. 300, M. & F. Dlue-rumped Creeper, 

 Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 239 (syn. exc). 



(J Above, head, back, rump, less, w.-covers, deep golden- 

 green with a bronzed lustre ; up. t.-covers steel-blue, v 

 umber-brown, tail black. Beluw, chin black; throat, fore part 

 of the neck, and upper breast, golden-green, the latter at the 

 lower edge shaded into violet and steel-blue, forming a pectoral 

 band not passing the line of the wings ; lower breast and ant. 

 half of the belly deep scarlet-red ; post, half of belly, vent, 

 flanks, and und. t.-covers, yellowish wood-brown ; axillary tufts 

 pale kingVyellow ; bill, tarsi, and feet, black. Length 5 \ in. 

 to 5 in. 4-10ths; bill to forehead, 1 in. ; w. to longest quill, 

 2 in. 7-10ths. 



9 Above, hair-brown, darker on the wings and tail, outer 

 web of the outer feather of the latter, white. Below, wax- 

 yellow (feathers pale hair-brown at the base), shading into 

 yellowish-white on the vent and und. t.-covers ; bill, tarsi, and 

 feet, dark umber- brown ; proportions equal to ^. 



Hob. S. Africa. The forests of the E. coast to Caflraria on 

 the Gamtoo and Sondag rivers. Does not reach the S. extre- 

 mity of the continent, but is restricted to the line of the great 

 forests. Le VaiV. Note. In the descript. in the Syst. Nat. it 

 is " abdomine albo." 



N. CHALYBEA, Linnaeus, 1766. 



Certhia ckalybea, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 186 (syn. exc.); 

 Gm. Linn. i. p. 475 (syn. exc.) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 i. p. 284 (syn. exc.). Certhia torqvata C. B. Spei. Le 

 yrimperecm a collier du C. de B. Esperance, Briss. Or- 

 nithol. 4to. iii. p. 643, pi. xxxii. fig. 1 ; 8vo. ii. p. 13 

 (syn. of last exc.). Grimpereau du C. de B. Espe- 

 rancc, Buff. PI. Enl. 246, fig. 3. Cmnyris chah/bea, 

 Sw. Zool. Illust. pi. 35. Collared Creeper, Lath. Gen! 

 Hist. iv. p. 247 (syn. exc.). Chalybean Creeper, Shaw 

 and Nodd., Nat. Miscel. x. pi. 381. Red-collared Sun- 

 bird, Sw. B. of W. Afr. ii. p. 132. (The last may be 

 found to belong to the next.) 



