PASSERINyE. 285 



The name of Guitguits is more particularly applied to certain 

 small species, the males of which are ornamented with lively colours. 

 Their tongue is filamentous and bifid*. 



We may separate from them the largest and least beautiful species, 

 whose tongue is short and cartilaginous. 



Merops rufus, Gm. ; Enl. 739; Figulus albogularis, Spix, 78. 

 A bird from South America, the size of a Kingfisher, reddish above, 

 with a whitish throat, which constructs a nest with earth upon shrubs, 

 arched over like an ovenf . 



Dictum J, Cuv. 



The tail not worn, neither do they climb; their sharp pointed, arcuated 

 bill, which is not longer than the head, is depressed and widened at base. 

 They inhabit the East Indies, are very small, and generally have some 

 scarlet in their plumage. 



Melithreptus, Vieill. 



In the Heorotaires the tail is not worn ; bill extremely long, and curved 

 almost into a semicircle. From the South Sea Islands. One of them, 



Certhia vestiara, Sh.; Vieill. Ois. Dor. II. pi. 52, and Gal. 181, 

 is covered with scarlet feathers used by the Sandwich islanders in the 

 manufacture of the beautiful mantles of that colour, which they so 

 highly prize §. 



CiNNYRis|l, Cuv. 



In the Soui-mangas the tail is not worn ; edges of the two mandibles of 



• Ccrfh. cyanea, Enl. 83, 2; Vieill. 41, 42, 43, and Gal. 17 6 i—cesrulea, Edw. 21, 

 Vieill. 44, 45, 46, two American species, to which we must probably add some from 

 the East, most of which are red, as C. sanguinea, Vieill. &&; — C. cardinalis, Id. 54, 

 58; — C. horbonica, Enl. 681, 2; — Vieill. Gal. 167, has given to these birds the name 



of COEREBA. 



N. B. C. armillata, Sparm. 36; — C. cayana, 682, 2, &c., are mere varieties of the 

 cyanea, or of the carulea. 



t This bird is the type of the genus Ophie or Opetiorhynchos of Tem.; Fur- 

 NARius, Vieill. Gal. 182. The genus Figulus, Spix, does not differ from it. Add 

 the Picchion-baillon, Vieill. Gal. 172; — Pomatorhinos montanus, Horsf. Jav. ; — Po- 

 mat. iurdimts, T. Col. 441 — Pom. trivirgatus, T. Col. 443; — CUmacteris picumnu's, 

 Tem. Col. 281, \;—Clim. scandens, lb. 2;— Certhia flaveola, Edw. 122, 362, Vieill. 

 51; — C. varia {Mot. varia, L.), Edw. 30, 2; Vieill. 74, which is the Mniotille varie, 

 Id. Gal. 169; — C. semitorquata, Vieill. 56; — the Promerops olivdtre, Vaill. Huppes et 

 Prom. pi. V. (Mer. olivaceus, Sh.) — Here, also, is the place, I suspect, for the C. vi- 

 rc7is, Vieill. 57 and 58, and sa?inio, Id. 64, which I have not seen, but which are dis- 

 tinguished by their slightly forked tails. 



X The name of a very small bird in the Indies, according to jElian. To this sub- 

 genus belong, Certh. erythronotos, Vieill. II, 35. The C. cruentata, Edw. 81, is 

 probably a different age of the same; — C, rubra, Vieill. pi. liv, of which the C. ery- 

 thropygla. Lath. 2d supp., is probably the female; — the Necturiiiia rubicosa, Tem. 

 Col. f. 2 and 3, does not appear to differ from it; — C. taniata, Sonner. II, Voy. pi. 

 cvii, fig. 3; — C. canlillans, lb. Id. 2; — Motacilla hirtmdinacea, Sh. Nat. Misc. No. 114. 



§ Add, Cerlh. obscura, Vieill. Ois. Dor. II, pi. liii; — C. pacifica. Id. pi. Ixiii; the 

 other species of this naturalist belong to very different genera, chiefly to the Phile- 

 dons, &c. 



II The Greek name of some very small unknown bird. The natives of Madagas- 

 car call them Soui-mingat, i. e. cat-sugar. Vieillot has adopted the above name and 

 genus, Gal. 177. 



