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Br. Mvf. 



T ENGTH four inches and a half. Bill more than half an inch, 

 and bent, the bafe white, tip black : top of the head and fides, 

 to beneath the eyes, green : chin, neck, breaft, back, and wings, 

 brown: letter wing coverts green: rump reddifh purple : lower 

 part of the breaft and belly white : tail black : legs brown. 

 A fpecimen of this is in the Britijb Mufeum. 



Var. a. 

 Description. 



Place. 



Certhia olivacea, Liu. Syft. i. p. 185. N° 5. 



Le Grimpereau olive de Madagafcar, Brif. orn. Hi. p. 625. N° 11. 

 Soui-manga olive a gorge pourpre, Buf. oif. v. p. 507. femelle? 

 Grimpereau olive de Madagafcar, PL eril. 575. f. 1 ? 



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OLIVE 



CR. 



ESS than our Creeper : total length four inches. Bill above Description. 

 half an inch long, and black : colour of the upper parts, 

 from the forehead to the rump, dull olive-green, inclining to 

 brown on the forehead and crown : the under parts grey brown : 

 round the eyes whitifh : quills and tail brown, with a tinge of 

 olive-green j the two outer feathers white at the ends : legs pale 

 brown. 



Inhabits Madagafcar. This furely can be no other than thefe- Place. 



male of the laft, though two circumftances join to forbid it, viz. 

 the bill being {horter by one-third, and the tail much longer ; in 

 this laft fpecies it being nineteen lines in length, and in the former 

 only fourteen, according to Brijfon, whom I mould not do juftice to, 

 in fuppofing him to fail of his ufual exaftnefs : however, I cannot 

 venture at prefent to place it otherwife than as a diftincl: fpecies. 



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