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GREEN-GOLD CREEPER. 



Certhia omnicolor. C. viridi-aurata, variis coloribus nitens. Lath. 



ind. orn. 



Green-gold Creeper, with various-coloured glosses. 

 Avis Ceylonica omnicolor. Seb. mus. 1. 1. 69. f. 5. 

 Certhia omnicolor. Lin. Gmel. 

 Green-gold Creeper. Lath. syn. 



THIS dubious species is figured, and very slightly 

 described, in the work of Seba, who tells us that 

 it is green, with varying reflexions of all colours, 

 and accompanied by rich golden glosses. Ac- 

 cording to the Sloanian coloured copy of Seba, in 

 the British Museum, it measures about eight 

 inches in length, and is of a bright bluejsh-green 

 above, glossed with gold: the wings and under 

 parts darker, or dusky grass-green with similar 

 glosses: the bill pretty much curved, sharp- 

 pointed, and, together with the legs, greenish 

 brown. Seba adds, that its young sometimes 

 fall a prey to the great wood-spider, (Aranea 

 avicularia. Lin.) 



