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CERTHIAD^. 



Sp. 1. Ce. familiaris. Shaiv, v.v'n.p. I86.pl. 24. — Britain and 



Europe. 



Sp. 2. Ce. Cinnamomea. Shmv, v. v'n. p. 224. — Inhabits ? 



Sp. 3. Ce ? spinicauda. 



S3^1via spinicauda. Stepli. v. x. p, 694. pi. 54. — Terra del Fuego. 

 Allied to the last genus. 



GENUS CCXXXm— CLIMACTERIS, Temminck. 



Rostrum breve, debile, com- 

 pressum, subarcuatum, 

 subulatum : mandihuldo 

 aequales, acutae. 



Nares basales, laterales, 

 membrana nud&. tectae. 



Pedes robusti, digitus me- 

 dius et pollex longissimi : 

 ungues magnae, curvati, 

 lateribus canaliculatis, su- 

 bulatae,^valde aduncae. 



Aloe mediocres : remex prima 

 brevis, secunda tertiam 

 brevior, tertia et quarta 

 longissima. 



Beak short, weak, com- 

 pressed, somewhat arched, 

 subulated : the mandibles 

 equal, acute. 



iVb^^HZ,? basal, lateral, clothed 

 by a membrane. 



Legs robust, the middle and 

 hinder toes longest: the 

 claws large, curved, chan- 

 nelled at the sides, awl- 

 shaped, very much hooked. 



Wings moderate: the first 

 quill short, the second 

 shorter than the third, the 

 third and fourth longest. 



Sp. 1. CI. scandens. Temm. PL Col. 281./ 2. 



Cl. liJBte fusciis uropygio rectricibusque duabus intermediis plum- 

 heis; ^ula collogue antice albis; pectore ventroque isnbellinis; 

 hypochondriis tectricibusque inferioribus caudce albo ftiscoque 

 variis; alisfuscisfasciis duabus transversis. 



Deep-brown Climacteris with the rump and two middle tail- 

 feathers lead-colour : the throat and neck in front white ; the 

 breast and belly isabella-colour ; the sides and under tail-coverts 

 varied with brown and white ; the wings brown with two trans- 

 verse bands. 



