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hatch). Bhiish ash colour above ; reddish beneath ; a blackish band 

 descending behind the eye; size of a Rouge-gorge*. 

 It has been thought necessary to separate from the Sittas, the 



XENOPS-f-, nUg. 



Which only differs from them in the bill being rather more compressed, 

 and the inferior ridge more convex j. 



Anabates, Temm. 



In which, on the contrary, the superior ridge of the bill is somewhat 

 convex, almost like the bill of a thrush which has no emargination. The 

 tail, in some, is long and cuneiform, and occasionally worn, a proof that 

 it supports them in climbingH. 



Synallaxis, Vieill. 



A straight bill, but little elongated ; very much compressed, slender, 

 and pointed; the tail generally long and pointed§. 



There are even some of them in which the stems of the tail-quills are 

 very stout, and project beyond the barbs ^. 



Those birds which have received the name of 



Certhia, Lin. 



Or the Creepers, have an arcuated bill, but that is almost the only com- 

 mon character they possess. 



We separate from them, in the first place, 



Certhia, Cuv. 



The True Creepers, so called from their habit of climbing trees, like 

 Woodpeckers, in doing which they make use of their tail as a prop or sup- 

 porter ; they are known by the quills of the tail, which are worn, and ter- 

 minate in a stiff point, like those of the same birds. 



There is one found in Europe, 



C. familiaris, L. ; Enl. 681, 1; Naum. 140. (The European 



• Add the S. a sourcil hlanc {S. canadensis, Briss.) Knl. 623, 2; — the Black- 

 headed N. {S. melanocephala, L.), Catesb. I, xxii; Vieill. Gal. 171 ; — S. frontalis, Swains. 

 Zool. 111. 2, or S. velata. Tern. Col. 72, 3, or Orthorynchus fronlalis, Hors£ Jav.; — 

 S. chri/soptera, Lath., 3dSupp. 327;—^. pusilla. Id. 



f Vieillot has changed this name into Neops. 



X Xenops rutilus, Licht., Col. 72, 2, or Neops ntficauda, Vieill. Gal. 170; — Xenops 

 Hofmanseggii, Col. 150, 1, Vaill. Prom. 31, 2;— Xenops anabatoides. Col. 150, 2. 



II Anahates cristattts, Spix, 84; — An. rvfifrons. Id. 85, 1; — Phili/dor riificoUis, Id. 

 75; — Phil, albogularis, Id. 74; — Phil, superciliaris, Id. 73; perhaps the same as the 

 Anabates amaurotis. Tern. Col. 238, 2; — Sphenura striolata, Spix, 83, 2, or Anabates 

 strivlatus. Tern. Col. 23, 1. 



§ Synallaxis rvfcapilla, Vieill. Gal. 174, or Parulus ruficeps, Spix, 86, from which 

 the Syn. albescens, Tem. Col. 227, 2, and the cinerascens, lb. 3, do not appear to me 

 to differ specifically ;—5?/7!. rutiUms, Col. 227, \;—Syn. tessdlata, Col. 311, \;—Syn. 

 setaria, lb. 2;— Prinia familiaris, Horsf. Jav.?— The Flufeur, Vaill. Afr. 112, or Mn- 

 lurtis africanus. Swains. 111. 170, merely has a somewhat higher bill. 



^ Dendrocolaptes sy Melius, Tcmm. Col. 72, 1. Vaill. Prom. 31, 2. 



