264 SYNOPSIS. 



Gmel. Linn. i. 483 (syn. exc.). Certhia polita, Latli. 

 Ind. Orn. i. p. 287, 1790. Polished Creeper, Lath. Gen. 

 Hist. iv. p. 245. Le Souimanga pourpre, Vieill. Ois. 

 Dor. ii. pi. xi. Purple Indian Creeper, Edw. Glean, ii. 

 pi. 265, up. figure. Cinnyris purpurata, Vieill. Enc. 

 Method, p. 596, 1823; Cinnyris polita, Jerd. Madras 

 Journ. 1840, p. 127. Purple Creeper, Certh. purpurata, 

 Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 201. 



(J Above, dark metallic-green, with blue and purple reflec- 

 tions ; w. umber-brown ; tail bluish black, feathers edged with 

 green. Below, chin velvet-black ; neck and upper parts of the 

 breast dark metallic-green, shading at the lower edge into steel- 

 blue, sometimes tinted with violet, lower breast with a narrow 

 band of purplish red ; belly, vent, and und. t.-covers, yellowish 

 hair-brown ; axillary tufts ample, king's-yellow ; bill strong at 

 the base, considerably curved, with the tarsi and feet black. 

 Length, 5 in. ; of bill to forehead, 1 in. to 1 in. 1-1 Oth ; of w. 

 to long, quill, 2 in. 2 or 3-10ths. 



9 Above, " light greenish brown, quills darker, t. black. 

 Below, pale yellow ; (differs from $ of N. mahrattensis only in 

 darker tint of plumage above)." Jerd. 



flab. Ceylon, Linn. Carnatic, on the west coast of the pe- 

 ninsula, Jerd. Continental India. Note. Varies in the intensity 

 of the blue or purple shade of the plumage, and hi the breadth 

 of the reddish pectoral bar. 



N. MAHRATTENSIS, Latham, 1801. 



Certhia mahrattensis, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp. p. xxxvi. 

 1801 ; Jerd. Mad. Journ. 1840, p. 127. Le Souimanga 

 dupays des Mahrattes, Vieill. Enc. Method. Orn. p. 595 

 Souimanga azure, C. cyaneus, Enc. Method, p. 599 ? 

 Le Souimanga violet, Vieill. Ois. Dor. pi. xii. Purple 

 Indian Creeper, Edw. Glean, ii. pi. 265, und. figure. 

 C. orientalis, Franck. Proceed. Zool. Journ. 1831, p. 122. 

 Eastern Creeper, Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 232, and Sugar 

 Creeper, C. asiatica, p. 238, seem also synonims (syn. 

 exc.). 



