ORDER PASSERES. 



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short and cartilaginous ; they are known only in the 

 Indian Archipelago, and live on spiders. 



Arachnothera Longirostra. Tem. Col. 84. 



Ashen olive above ; alar quills brown, edged with 

 olive ; caudal blackish, white tipped ; throat and 

 front of neck, white ; rest clear yellow. Java. 



Arach. Inornata. Id. ib. 2. 



Small scaly plumes on the forehead ; all above, green, 

 bordering on olive ; ashy whitish underneath. Java. 

 Cin. Affinis of Dr. Horsfield. 



After all these distinctions, we must still separate 

 from the great genus Certhiay the C. Lunata. Vieil. 

 C. Novce HollandicB. White. New South Wales. 

 C. Australasiana. Vieil. C Carunculata. Vieil. C. 

 Auriculata, Vieil. C. Cocincinica. Vieil. C. Spiza. 

 Enl. 578. Edw. 25. C. Seniculus. Vieil. C. Gra- 

 culina. Vieil. C. Goruck. Vied. C. CcBrulea. Vieil. 

 C. Xanthotis. Vieil. C. Mellisora. Vieil. All which 

 are Philedons, by their indented bdl, and their pen- 

 cdlated tongue. 



The Humming-Birds. ( Trochilus L.) 



These little birds, so celebrated for the metallic brd- 

 liancy of their plumage, and, especially by plates, 

 which form on their throat or head, scaly feathers, of 

 a peculiar structure, have a long and slender beak, 

 enclosing a tongue, which is almost as much elongated 

 as that of the pies, and is divided into two threads. 



