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CRIMSON- 
BELLIED 
Ck. 
DsscriPTiON. 
PLAGE, 
19. 
LEONA 
CR. 
DEscRIPTION, 
20. 
MAHRATTA 
CR. 
DgEscRIPTION. 
COR WEY Baan Ee UR 
¥ ENGTH five inches and a half: bill black: head, neck, and 
breaft of a moft brilliant amethyftine purple, mixed on the breaft 
with vermilion red, forming a kind of bar thereon: belly black: 
vent and under tail coverts glofiy purplifh blue: the upper part of 
the neck, lefler wing coverts,’ back, rump, and upper tail coverts 
moft brilliant green gold; the reft of the wings and tail greenifh 
black ; two or three of the outer feathers fringed on the outer margins 
with green gold: on_each fide of the breaft, under the wing, a tuft of 
fine yellow: wings black. vi 
Inhabits Africa. It feems to approach very ‘near to the Certhia 
Polita of the Carlfonan Mufeum. 
Leona Creeper, Nar. Mi/c. x, pl. 369 2 
ENGT Hi four inches: bill and legs black: head; hind part of 
the neck and ‘back green gold: chin, throat, and breaft purplifh 
black: the belly and vent pale brimftone or yellow: quills dufky : 
tail glofly blackifh fteel colour: under the wings a tuft of yellow 
feathers as in the laft, but paler. 
Brought from /frica with the laft, and communicated by Thomas 
Wilfon, elquire, who obligingly furnifhed me with fpecimens of both; 
this is about one third fmaller than the former, and has many things 
*n common with it, but whether it differs therefrom in fex or age 
only, wants further inveftigation. 
,ENGTH i four inches: bill and legs black: general colour of 
the body violet pnrple: wings dufky brown: tail dufky black, 
but the two middle feathers are entirely, and the outer edges of all 
: the 
