CERTHIAD^. 



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Nares basales, magnse, su- 

 perne membrana clausae, 

 inferne rima longitudinali 

 apertae. 



Alee, remiges prima spuria, 

 secunda et tertia abrupte 

 longiores, quartae ad octam 

 longiores subaequales, ex- 

 teme emarginatas ; ceterae 

 gradatim breviores cu- 

 neatae. 



Pedes subelongati : ungues 

 compressi, arcuati, acuti, 

 postico medio duplo ma- 

 jore. 



Nostrils basal, large, closed 

 above by a membrane, 

 with a longitudinal cleft 

 below. 



Wings, with the first quill 

 spurious, the second and 

 third abruptly longer, the 

 fourth to the eighth 

 lengthened and nearly 

 equal, outwardly emar- 

 ginated; the rest gradually 

 shorter and wedged. 



Legs rather elongated : claws 

 compressed, bent, acute, 

 the hinder one twice as 

 large as the middle. 



Sp. 1. Or. sepium. Linn. Trans. {Horsf.) v. xiii.^. 166. 



Or. olivaceo-Juscescens capite et tibiis Jerrugineis ; remigibus 



yhscis s guld pectoreque nigricantibus ; ahdominejiavido. 

 Olive-brown Orthotomus with the head and tibiae rust-colour; 



the quills brown; the throat and breast dusky j the abdomen 



yellowish. 

 Cbiglet Creeper. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. iv. p. 26o. 



Inhabits Java. Length four inches : plumage 

 brownish-olive : head ferruginous : chin and breast 

 dusky : belly yellowish : quills brown : legs longish : 

 middle and outer toes united at the base by a small 

 membrane : hind-claw twice the size of those before. 



V. XIV. p. I. 



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