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BLACK AND YELLOW CREEPER. 



Certhia flaveola. C. nigricans, subtus lutea gutture cano, super- 

 ciliis macula alari apicibusque rectricwn extimarum albis. 



Blackish Creeper, yellow beneath, with grey throat, with the 

 brows, wing-spot, and tips of the exterior tail-feathers white. 



Certhia flaveola. C. nigra, subtus lutea, superciliis exalbidis, rec- 

 tricibus extimis apice albis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Black and yellow Creeper. Edw. pi. 122. Lath. syn. 



Yellow-bellied Creeper. Edw. pi. 362. Lath. syn. 



Certhia Bahamensis. Briss. av. 



Le Sucrier. Euf. ois. Viell. Certh. pi 5 1 . 



THE male of this species, which is about the 

 size of a Wren, has the head, upper part of the 

 neck, back, wings, and tail blackish brown : the 

 throat pale ash-colour, and the remainder of the 

 under parts bright yellow, paler towards the vent: 

 over each eye is a lengthened white stripe; a white 

 spot appears at the edge of the wings, and two 

 exterior tail-feathers are tipped with white : the 

 bill and legs are black. In the female the upper 

 parts are cinereous brown, and the under parts 

 pale yellow. Native of the Antilles, and of some 

 parts of South-America, feeding on insects and 

 the juice of flowers, and building in shady situa- 

 tions near water, forming its nest on the ex- 

 tremities of the branches of climbers attached to 

 tall trees; interlacing them in such a manner as to 

 suspend securely the nest, which is egg-shaped, 

 formed of grasses and mosses, and lined with 

 downy substances: the entrance is at the bottom, 



