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and coverts : the wings and tail are violet-black ; 

 but the two middle-feathers of the latter are strongly 

 edged with green, and greatly exceed the length 

 of the rest : under the wings is a tuft of yellow fea- 

 thers: the bill and legs are black, and on each side 

 the head, from the base of the bill to the eye, is a 

 black streak. The female is smaller than the male, 

 and is olive-brown above, and yellow-grey beneath, 

 with all the tail-feathers of equal length. Native of 

 the Cape of Good Hope. It is suspected that the 

 usually received Linnaean name of this species has 

 originated from a typographical error in the Sys- 

 tema Naturae, and that instead offamosa it should 

 have beenformosa. 



YELLOW-BELLIED CREEPER. 



Certhia lepida. C. violaceo-nitem, subtvs fava, sincipite viridi, 

 lateribus colli striga longitudinali virescente alteraque violacea, 

 gula rubro-fusca. Lath. ind. or. 



Glossy-violet Creeper, yellow beneath, with green forehead, 

 with a longitudinal greenish band accompanied by a violaceous 

 one on each side the neck, and ferruginous throat. 



Certhia lepida. Mus. Carls, fasc. 2. t. 35. 



Le Grimpereau de Malacca. Son. ind. 2. pi. } l6.f. 1. 



Yellow-bellied Creeper. Lath. syn. suppl. 



SOMEWHAT larger than a Canary-Bird : bill 

 black: irides red: thighs yellow: legs brown. 

 Described from Sonnerat. 



