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well defined, as the male : and again, the outer tail feathers arc 

 tipped with white; this will be found in many of the females of 

 both Humming-bird and Creeper genus, and will fomewhat affift in 

 defining the fex, though I will not fay always a certain criterion. 

 Buffan has included the four lafl defcribed in one chapter ; 



ihewing his opinion of the probability of all of them being nearly 



■related to one another-. 



Certhla Lotenia, Lin. Syjt. i. p. 188. N° 25. 



Le Grimpereau verd de Madagafcar, Brif. era. iii. p. 641. N° 19. pi. 3,5. 



f. 4. the male, and f. 5. the female.— PL enl, 575. f, 2. 3. 

 L'Angala-dian, Buf.eif. 5. p. 510. 



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5 HE length of this fpecies is five inches and a quarter. Bill 

 fourteen lines, and black: the tongue comprefled at the 

 end * : the head, neck, back rump, fcapulars, and upper tail co- 

 verts, are green gold : between the bill and eye, on each fide, is a 

 narrow line of velvet black : beneath, from the breaft to the vent* 

 of the laft colour, which is feparated from the green on the neck 

 by a tranfverfe bright violet band, a line and half in breadth : the 

 lefier wing coverts are of this lafl colour j the middle coverts 

 are green gold ; and the greater coverts are very fine black, edged 

 with green gold on the outer edge : the quills are the fame colour j 

 as are the tail feathers : legs black. 



The. female differs in having the breaft, belly, fides, thighs, un- 

 der wing and tail coverts, of a dirty white, fpotted with black i 



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and the wings and tail not of fo fine a black. 



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