

GREY CREEPER. 



Certhia currucaria. C. olivacca, subtut grisescens, rtctricibus 

 (tquaUbiis,ju^ulo vitta longitudinali violaceo. Lath. irtd. orn. 



Olivaceous Creeper, greyish beneath, with even tail, and lon- 

 gitudinal violet throat-stripe. 



Certhia currucaria. C. olivacea, subtus Jlavcsccns, rectricibus 

 (tqualibus. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Le Souimanga a cravatte violette. Viell. Certh. pi. 15. 



Grey Creeper. Lath. syn. 



Certhia jugularis. C. subgrisea, subtus lutea, gula violacea, ra> 

 tridbus duabus cxtimis apicejlavis. Lin. Sysl. Nat. 



Le petit Grimpereau des Philippines. Buff. ois. PI. Enl. 576. 

 /.3. 



Le Soui-manga a cravate bleu. Viell. Certh. pi. 31. 



Grey Creeper. Var. A. Lath. syn. 



DESCRIBED by Brisson: length about five inches: 

 colour grey-brown; yellowish- white beneath: from 

 the lower mandible down the breast runs a deep 

 and glossy violet-coloured stripe, and the smaller 

 wing-coverts are of similar colour: the tail is 

 blackish, with a blue gloss on the sides of the fea- 

 thers. Native of the Philippine isles. In a spe- 

 cimen figured in the work of Monsr. Viellot the 

 violet stripe is continued down the whole abdomen, 

 and it is also observed, that under each wing, as 

 in many of this genus, is a tuft of yellow plumes. 

 Monsr. Viellot, with great probability, considers 

 this bird rather as the young of some other species 

 than as constituting a distinct species itself. He also 

 figures what seems to be a mere variety of the pre- 

 ceding, though he himself is of a different opinion. 



