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it should be placed in this genus or not. Aldro- 

 vandus, however, expressly declares the bill to be 

 longish, slender, and of a black colour, and the 

 figure, though rude, would, even at the present 

 day, pass for a tolerable representation of some of 

 the African and American Certhia?. 



