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ing to the lower part of the back. Tail long, rounded, 
grey, mottled with brown, and with four black bars. 
Wings barred with brownish-black, and wood-brown. 
Chin and throat yellowish-white, with transverse black 
bars. 
On each side of the breast is a patch of wood-brown. Breast 
and belly white, with numerous arrow-shaped black spots. 
Legs and toes wood-brown. Irides chesnut-brown. 
The female differs in no respect from the male bird. 
Orpver IV. UNEQUAL-FOOTED. ANISO- | 
DACTYLI, Temm. 
CHARACTERS OF THE ORDER. 
Bill more or less curved, sometimes straight, subulated, 
and drawn to a fine point. Feet with three toes before, and 
one behind. The hind toe generally strong, and of some 
length, the outer and inner toes often of unequal length, the 
outer being joined at its base to the middle one. Claws long, 
hooked and sharp. 
Most of the genera composing this Order have the same 
habits and manners as the second Division of the Zygodac- 
tyli, and may properly be called Creepers, many of them run- 
ning with equal facility up or down the trunks and branches 
of trees, and the surface of rocks and old walls. They are 
principally insectivorous ; but some of the exotic genera, that 
feed on very minute insects, also suck the sweet juice from 
the nectary of flowers, as the genera Nectarinia, T'rochilus, 
&e. The greater part of these genera will be found included 
in the order Pica of authors. 
