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ANGALAD1AN CREEPER. 



Certhia Angaladiana. C.viridi-aurea, abdomine remigibus can* 



daque nigris, fascia pectorali violacea. 

 Gold-green Creeper, with black abdomen, quill-feathers and tail, 



and violet pectoral baud. 



Certhia Lotenia ? ? Lin. Syst. Nat. Lath. ind. orn. 

 L'Angala-dian. Buff. ois. PI. Enl. 575. f. 2. 3. Aud. et Vidl. 



Certh.pl. 3.4. 

 Loten's Creeper. Lath. 6yn. 



VERY much allied in point of size and habit to 

 the Splendid Creeper, but differs in its colours, 

 having the head, neck, breast, back, rump, and 

 wing-coverts gold-green, the wings and tail black, 

 and the abdomen deep or velvet-black, while across 

 the breast, separating it from the black abdomen, 

 runs a glossy steel-blue band : the bill and legs are 

 black. The female is said to differ in being brown 

 above, with the throat dull gold-green, and the 

 abdomen ash-colour. In the System a Naturas 

 Linnaeus describes the Certhia Lotenia as having 

 a bright red bar across the breast. It is not 

 therefore very improbable that the Splendid 

 Creeper of the present work may be the Linnsean 

 Certhia Lotenia, since it is distinguished by the 

 characteristic which forms a conspicuous feature in 

 the Linnsean character of that bird, viz. the bright 

 red bar across the breast; while on the other hand 

 it by no means agrees with the supposed Linnsean 

 Certhia Lotenia of other writers. 



