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BLACK-CHINNED CREEPER. 



Certhia Cocinsinica. C. viridis, subtus ccerulesccns t gula mart* 



"nigraflaco cincta t foemin(K ccerulea. 

 Green Creeper, blueish beneath, with the throat of the male 



black edged with yellow, of the female blue. 

 Turdus Cochinsinensis. T. viridis , loris gulaque nigris, sub gula 



lunula latajlava, ad basin rostri utrinquc macula ccendea. Lath. 



ind. orn. 



Le Verdin de la Cochinchine. Buff. ois. PI. Enl. 643. 

 Black-chinned Thrush. Lath. syn. 

 Le Verdin, Viell. Certh. pi. 77- 78. 

 Turdus Malabaricus ? Malabar Thrush ? Lath. 



LENGTH near six inches : colour a fine green, 

 inclining to blue on the under parts: throat black, 

 bordered with a yellowish cast, and from the cor- 

 ners of the bill on each side springs a lilac-co- 

 loured streak along the upper part of the black 

 throat : the insides of the quill and tail-feathers* 

 are dusky : the smaller coverts blue : the bill and 

 legs black : the tongue the length of the bill, and 

 probably, in the living bird, extensile; ciliated at 

 the tip, as in most of the Creepers, to which genus 

 it more properly belongs than to that of Thrush, 

 in which it is placed by modern ornithologists^ 

 Native of India. The female, according to Viellot, 

 differs in being of a somewhat paler and bluer cast 

 than the male, and in having the throat entirely 

 blue, but edged with a tinge of yellow, as in the 

 irtale. 



