NEW HOLLAND CREEPER. 225 



inches: back, wings, and tail cinnamon bro wn : 

 whole under parts of the bird, from the bill, white: 

 upper part of the head and back of the neck black, 

 marked on the hindhead by a white crescent, the 

 tips of which almost reach the eyes, being sepa. 

 rated only by a bright-red spot behind each eye : 

 bill black; legs brown. Native of New Holland. 



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NEW HOLLAND CREEPER. 



Certhia Novae Hollandiae. C. nigra subtus albo-striata, superciliis 

 maculaque aurium albis, remigibus rectricibusquefla'co marginatis. 

 Lath. ind. orn. 



Black Creeper, striped beneath with white ; with wliite brows 

 and ear-spot, and yellow-edged quill and tail-feathers. 



New Holland Creeper. White's Journ. p. 186. pi. l6 and 65. 



L'Heoro-taire noir. ? Viell. Certh .pi. 71. female. 



L'Heoro-taire tachete. Viell. Certh. pi. 5?. male. 



DESCRIBED in White's Journal of a Voyage to 

 New South Wales. Length about seven inches : 

 general colour dusky, spotted in various parts with 

 white : neck, breast, belly, and sides more or less 

 marked with longitudinal streaks of white; or, in 

 other words, these parts are whitish, streaked with 

 longitudinal blackish snots: over each eye a white 

 streak, and on each side the neck and the begin- 

 ning of the back are also some streaks of the same 

 colour : remainder of the upper parts, and tail deep 

 brown, but the quill- feathers edged with bright 

 yellow, forming a large patch of that colour on 

 each wing: tail-feathers, except the two middle 



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