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Certhia Bahamenfis, Lin. Sjft. i. p. 187. N° 18. /3. 



Le Grimpereau de Bahama, Brif. mn. iii. p. 620. N° 8. 



Bahama Titmoufe, Catef. Car. i. pi. 59. 



HTHIS is a trifle bigger than our Creeper : length four inches 

 eight lines. Bill half an inch, and black : on the upper 

 parts of the body the plumage is brown ; beneath yellow : the 

 ridge of the wing is alio yellow : the throat is paler than the reft 

 of the plumage : and the lower part of the belly, vent, and 

 under tail coverts, are brown : over the eye, on each fide, to the 

 hind head, is a ftripe of white : wings and tail brown ; the edges 

 of" the feathers of the laft are dirty white : legs and claws 

 brown. 



Inhabits the Bahama IJles. Linnaus feems to think this bird a 

 mere variety of the laft mentioned. 



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Vak. B. 



BAHAMA 



CR. 



Description. 



Place. 



Lev. Muf. 



T ENGTH five inches. Bill dufky, not very hooked, though 

 bent j three quarters of an inch long : the body in general 

 crimfon, the upper parts deepeft : quills black : the fecondaries 

 margined with cheftnut : belly dufky : vent white : the tail 

 black 5 all the feathers rather pointed at the end ; the (hafts 

 white : legs black. 



Inhabits the Sandwich IJlands. 



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4- CRIMSON 

 CR. . 



Description. 



5B2 



LENGTH 



