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SANGUINEOUS CREEPER. 



Certhia sanguinolenta. C. coccineo-sanguinea, dorso maculis dtf- 

 formibus nigris, subtus cinerta, gulajuguloque albis. Lath. ind. 



orn. suppl. 

 Blood-red Creeper, marked above by irregular black spots, 



beneath cinereous with white chin and throat. 

 Sanguineous Creeper. Lath. syn. suppl. 2. 



DESCRIBED by Dr. Latham from a drawing: 

 colour above bright red, somewhat irregularly 

 varied with differently sized black spots: shoul- 

 ders, quill-feathers, and tail black, the quiil-feathers 

 edged with white: under parts whitish brown: 

 bill black, and rather short for a bird of this genus: 

 legs brown. Native of New Holland. 



OLIVE-GREEN CREEPER. 



Certhia virens. C. olivacco-viridis, subtus Jlavescens, loris sub" 

 nigrisj remi gibus caudaque Jlavo margmatis apicejuscis. 



Olive-green Creeper, yellowish beneath, with blackish lores, and 

 yeUbW-cdgetl quill and tail-feathers with black tips. 



Certhia vireiis. C. olivaceo-viridis, loris nigricantibus, remigibus 

 caudaque Jlavo margmatis. Lath. ind. orn. 



Olive-green Creeper. Lath. syn. 



Le Vert-olive. VidL Certh. pi. 6?. 



AN elegant species : length about five inches 

 and a half: colour, on the upper parts, fine olive- 

 green, except the tips of the wings and tail, which 

 incline to brown ; the latter slightly forked at the 



