7*+ CREEPER. 



15. Certhia currucaria, Lin.Syfl.\. p. 185. N°"6.' 



GREY Le Grimpereau gris des Philippines, Brif. orn. i. p. 615. N° 5. pi. 30. f. 3.. 



■ — Bufoif. v. p. 508. — PI, enl. p. 576. f. 2. 



Description. T ENGTH four inches and eight: lines. Bill three quarters of 

 an inch long, and black: tongue forked: the upper parts 

 of the body are grey brown : the under parts yellowifh white,, 

 deepeft on the bread : down the middle of the neck, as far as the 

 breaft, is a deep violet ftripe, beginning at the chin : the upper 

 wing coverts are violet, with a fteely glofs : the quills brown :: 

 tail one inch and a quarter in length, and black, edged with, 

 fteely blue, and whitifh at the tips: legs and claws black, 

 Plach. Inhabits the Philippine IJles, 



ir, Certhia jugularis, Lin. Syji.i. p. 185. N° 7. 



Var. A. 



Le petit Grimpereau des Philippines, Brif. orn. iii. p. 616. N° 6. pi. 35. 

 f. e. — Buf. oif. v. p. 500. — El. enl. C76. f. 3. 



Description. HPHIS is fmaller than the laft : length three inches and eight- 

 lines. Bill three quarters of an inch, and blackifh : the plu- 

 mage above is grey brown; beneath yellow: on the throat is ej 

 pretty large fpot of a deep violet-colour: quills grey brown : 

 tail deep brown ; the two outer feathers are obliquely tipped with 

 yellowifh white : legs and claws blackifh. 

 UtACE and Inhabits the Philippine IJles. I think there can fcarce remain a 



©bservations. doubt f jts being a. female, rather than a. young one of the laft 

 fpecies. We generally obferve, that the females are lefs vivid in 

 £ heir markings, if the fame ; or, if not, to have the marks not Co 



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