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with their great claws. The beak is triangular and depressed at . 
base, very long and very slender. . 
One species only is known, which inhabits the south of Eu- 
rope, Certhia muraria, L.; Enl. 372; Naum. 141. It is a pretty 
bird of a light ash aibhgy the coverts and edges of a part 
of the wing-quills bright red. The throat of the male is 
black.(1) : 
Necranrini, Illig. 
Tail not worn, nor are these birds climbers, but their moderately 
long, arcuated, pointed and compressed beak resembles that of the 
Creepers. They are all foreign to Europe. 
The name of Guircurts is more particularly applied to cer- 
tain small species, the males of which are ornamented with 
lively colours. Their tongue is filamentous and bifid.(2) 
We may separate from them the largest and least beautiful 
species, whose tongue is short and cartilaginous. 
Merops rufus, Gm.; Enl. 739; Figulus albogularis, Spix, 78. 
_A bird from South America, the size of a Kingfisher, reddish 
above, with a whitish throat, which constructs a nest upon 
shrubs, arched over like an oven.(3) 
Diczum, Cuv.(4) 
The tail not worn, neither do they climb; their sharp pointed, 
(1) Certh. fusca, Lath. Vieill. 65, appears to me to belong to this subgenus. 
(2) 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. cardi- 
nalis, Id., 54, 58;—C. borbonica, Enl. 681, 2;—Vieill.*Gal. 167, has given to these 
birds the name of Correba. 
N.B. C. armillata, Sparm. 36;—C. cayana, 682, 2, &c. are mere varieties of the 
cyanea or of the cxrulea. 
(3) This bird is the type of the genus Ornrz or Orrrionnyxcnos of Tem.; Fur- 
nantivs, Vieill. Gal. 182. The genus Ficutus, Spix, does not differ from it. Add 
the Picchion-baillon, Viell, Gal. 172;—Pomatorhinos montanus, Horsf. Jav.;—Po- 
mat. turdinus, T. Col. 441;—Pom. trivirgatus, T. Col. 443;—Climacteris picum- 
nus, 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 Mnio- 
tille varié, Id. Gal. 169;—C. semitorquata, Vieill. 56;—the Promerops olivatre, 
Vaill. Huppes et Prom. pl. v (Mer. olivaceus, Sh.).—Here, also, is the place, I sus- — 
pect, for the C. virens, Vieill. 57 and 58, and sannio, Id. 64, which I have not 
seen, but which are distinguished by their slightly forked tails. + ; 
(4) The name of a very small bird in the Indies, according to Elian. To this 
subgenus belong, Certh. erythronotos, Viell. Il, 35. The C. eruentata, Edw. 81, 
is probably a different age of the same;—C. rubra, Vieill: pl. liy, of which the C. 
