PASSERINE. 985 
The name of Guriteurrs is more particularly applied to certain 
small species, the males of which are ornamented with lively colours. 
Their tongue is filamentous and bifid*. 
We may separate from them the largest and least beautiful species, 
whose tongue is short and cartilaginous. 
Merops rufus, Gm.; Enl. 739; Kigulus albogularis, Spix, 78. 
A bird from South America, the size of a Kingfisher, reddish above, 
with a whitish throat, which constructs a nest with earth upon shrubs, 
arched over like an oven}. 
Diczum}, Cuv. 
The tail not worn, neither do they climb; their sharp pointed, arcuated 
bill, which is not longer than the head, is depressed and widened at base. 
They inhabit the East Indies, are very small, and generally have some 
scarlet in their plumage. 
Metitnrertus, Vieill. 
In the Heorotaires the tail is not worn; bill extremely long, and curved 
almost into a semicircle. From the South Sea Islands. One of them, 
Certhia vestiara, Sh.; Vieill. Ois. Dor. II. pl. 52, and Gal. 181, 
is covered with scarlet feathers used by the Sandwich islanders in the 
manufacture of the beautiful mantles of that colour, which they so 
highly prize§. 
Cinnyris ||, Cuv. 
In the Soui-mangas the tail is not worn; edges of the two mandibles of 
* Certh. cyanea, Enl. 83, 2; Vieill. 41, 42, 43, and Gal. 176;—cerulea, Edw. 21, 
Vieill. 44, 45, 46, two American species, to which we must probably add some from 
the East, most of which are red, as C. sanguinea, Vieill. 66;—C. cardinalis, Id. 54, 
58;—C. borbonica, Enl. 681, 2;—Vieill. Gal. 167, has given to these birds the name 
of CoEREBA. 
N. B. C. armillata, Sparm. 36;—C. cayana, 682, 2, &c., are mere varieties of the 
cyanea, or of the cerulea. ; 
+ This bird is the type of the genus Opure or OPETIORHYNCHOs of Tem.; Fur- 
NwaARIvS, Vieill. Gal. 182. The genus Ficutus, Spix, does not differ from it. Add 
the Picchion-baillon, Vieill. Gal. 172;—Pomatorhinos montanus, Horsf. Jay.;—Po- 
mat. turdinus, 'T. Col. 441—Pom. trivirgatus, T. Col. 443;—Climacteris picumnus, 
Tem. Col. 281, 1;—Clim. scandens, Ib. 2;—Certhia flaveola, Edw. 122, 362, Vieill. 
51;—C. varia (Mot. varia, L.), Edw. 30, 2; Vieill. 74, which is the Mniotille varié, 
Id. Gal. 169;—C. semitorquata, Vieill. 56;—the Promerops olivdtre, Vaill. Huppes et 
Prom. pl. y. (Mer. olivaceus, Sh.)—Here, also, is the place, I suspect, for the C. vi- 
rens, Vieill. 57 and 58, and sannio, Id. 64, which I have not seen, but which are dis- 
tinguished by their slightly forked tails. 
{ The name of a very small bird in the Indies, according to #lian. To this sub- 
genus belong, Certh. erythronotos, Vieill. II, 35. The C. cruentata, Edw. 81, is 
probably a different age of the same;—C. rubra, Vieill. pl. liv, of which the C. ery- 
thropygia, Lath. 2d supp., is probably the female;—the Nectarinia rubicosa, Tem. 
Col. f. 2 and 3, does not appear to differ from it;—C. teniata, Sonner. II, Voy. pl. 
evil, fig. 3;—C. cantillans, Ib. Id. 2;—Motacilla hirundinacea, Sh. Nat. Misc. No. 114. 
§ Add, Certh. obscura, Vieill. Ois. Dor. II, pl. liii;—C. pacifica, Id. pl. lxiii; the 
other species of this naturalist beiong to very different genera, chiefly to the Phile- 
dons, &c. 
|| The Greek name of some very small unknown bird. The natives of Madagas- 
car call them Sout-mangat, i. e, eat-sugar. Vieillot has adopted the above name and 
genus, Gal. 177. 
