368. CLASS AVES. , 



elongated, and curved almost in a half circle. They 

 come from the South Sea Islands. 

 One of them, 



( Certhia T^estiaria. Sh.) Vieil. Ois. dores II. 

 pi. 52. 



Is covered with scarlet plumes, which serve for the 

 fabrication of the handsome mantles of this colour, 

 by the inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands, which 

 are held in such esteem. 



Hook-hilled green Creeper. (Certh. Obscura.) Vieil. 

 Ois. Dor. 53. 



Olive green ; paler beneath ; quills and tail dusky ; 

 seven inches. Honey-eater of Lath. 



Great Hook-billed Creeper. {C. Pacifica. Id. PL 63). 



Black above ; rump and upper tail-coverts yellow ; 

 underneath dusky ; eight inches. Friendly Islands. 

 But the other Melithrepti of this Naturalist belong to 

 very different genera, especially the Philedon, and 

 to the Dicees. 



• M. Vieillot has described the following species : 



M. Vestiarius. 

 M. Ohscurus. 

 M. Pacifieus. 

 M, Pyrrhopterm. 

 M. Canescens. 

 M. Tenuirostris. 

 M. Ccendescens. 

 M. Fiiscus. 

 M. AtricapiUw. 

 M. CoUwis. 



