CRIMSON CREEPER. 



Certhia sanguinea. C. phoenicea, remig&us caudaque nigris, crit&a 



albo, rostra rcctiusculo. 

 T)eep-crimson Creeper, with black wing and tail-feathers, white 



vent, and strait isli bill. 

 <?erthia sanguinea, C. saturate coccinea, abdomine obscuro, crisso 



albo, remigibus sccundariis castanco marginatis, primoribus res- 



tridbusque nigris. Lath. ind. era, 

 Crimson Creeper. Lath. syn. 

 L'Heoro-taire cramoisi. Viell. Certh,pl. 66. 



THE length of this species is about five inches 

 and a half; and its habit somewhat allied to that 

 x)f a Motacilla, the bill having Tbut a very slight 

 flexure: the colour of the bird is deep crimson, 

 with the wings and tail black: the smaller wing- 

 coverts are however crimson, the larger edged with 

 dull red, and the quill-feathers with chesnut: the 

 tail is rather short, and composed of slightly 

 pointed feathers: the vent is whitish; the bill 

 black, and the legs brown. Monsr. Viellot has 

 figured this species in his elegant work on the 

 genus Certhia: the specimen from which his 

 figure was taken appears to have had the whole of 

 the abdomen of the same deep crimson with the 

 other parts; in the Leverian specimen it was of a 

 dusky or brownish cast. Native of the Sandwicb 

 Isles. 



