'296 Mr. ViGons's and Dr. Horsfield's Description of tlie 



Certhia picumnus. ///. 



Fchelet picumne. Tenun. PI. Col. 281./. 1. 



Mr. Caley informs us that "this bird is met with in the scrubs 

 at Paramatta, and may be seen running swiftly up the bodies 

 of trees, crying out pink, pink, like the Fringilla cccltbs of Eu- 

 rope Its irides are dark hazel- brown." 



2. Scan DENS. C. fusco-brimneus; reinigibus fuscis, maculis me- 

 dia ferrugineû subapicalique fiisco-nigra fdsciatis ; gutture 

 pectoreque albis, illo macula ferruginea postauriculari ; ab- 

 domine nigro, albo-strigato ; rectricibus griseis, in tnedio ni- 

 gro-fasciatis. 



Fœm. Gutture albo, immaculato. 



Climacteris scandens. Temm. 



Fchelet grimpeur. Id. PI. Col. 281. /. 2. 



The two specimens in the collection were shot together by 

 l\Ir. Caley, running up a tea-tree. Their irides were light hazel- 

 brown. M. Temminck informs us that the female is without the 

 ferruginous spot behind the ears. 



Genus. .Sitta. Linn, et Auct. 



1. Chuysoptera. S. cinerea, subtus albida ; alis caudùque 

 nigro-fuscis, remigibus aurantio-ferrugineo in medio fasci- 

 atis, tectricibus inferioribus macula alba notatis, uropygio 

 reclricumqne apicibus albis. 



Sitta chrysoptera. Lath. Ind. Orn. Si/pp. p. xxxii. no. 1. 



Orange-winged Nuthatch. Id. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 77. no. 20. 

 pi. 63. 



This species of Nuthatch, Mr. Caley informs us, is not unfre- 

 quent among the small trees about Paramatta. The irides are 

 cream-coloured. 



The 



