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COPPER CREEPER. 



Certhia cuprea. C. aureo-cuprea, riolaceo viridique nitens, abdomine 

 atro, remigibus caudaquejusvis. 



Golden-copper Creeper, with green and violet glosses, black ab- 

 domen, and brown wines and tail. 



Certhia aenea. C. ex viridi oric/ialcea, alisfuliginosisj cauda atro- 

 nitcntc, remigibus rectricibusque nigris. Lath. ind. orn. Sparrm. 

 Mus. Carls, fasc. 4. t. 78. 



Le Soui-manga tricolor. Viell. Certh. pi. 23. 



Cupreous Creeper. Lath. syn. suppl. 2. 



LENGTH about five inches: head, neck, begin- 

 ning of the breast, back, rump, and tail-coverts red- 

 dish copper-colour, with gilded violet and green 

 reflexions, according to the direction of thejight: 

 under parts of the bird, from the breast, deep black: 

 wings and tail brown: bill and legs dusky. Native 

 of Malimba and other parts of Africa. 



PURPLED CREEPER. 



Certhia purpurata. C. purpureo-violacea viridi nitens, fascia pec- 

 turali punicea, remigibus caudaque nigricantibus t rostro majusculo. 



Purple-violet Creeper, with dark-red, pectoral bar, blackish quill* 

 feathers and tail, and largish bill. 



Purple Indian Creepers. Edw. pi. 265. 



Soui-manga pourpre. Buff. ois. VielL Certh. pi. 11. 



THIS, which has sometimes been confounded 

 with the Collared Creeper, is most evidently a very 



