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of brown ; over the eye a kind of white eyebrow ; beneath the body 

 white; quills brown, edged with glossy copper; tail blackish, the 

 outer feather tipped with white ; legs brown. Supposed to be the 

 young imperfect bird of the red breasted. 



B.— Certhia Sperata, Gm. Lin. i. 13. |8. Ind. Om. i. 283. 8. y. 



Soui-manga a gorge violette et poitrine rouge, Buf. v. 499. Ois. dor. ii. p. 54. pi. 32. 

 Grimpereau 3me. de Lugon, Son. Voy. p. 63. t. 30. D. Gen. Syn. ii. 708. B. 

 Violet- throated Creeper, Shaw's Zoo/, viii. 208. 



According to Sonnerat, the head is pale green ; throat glossy 

 violet ; breast vermilion-red, approaching to carmine ; back and 

 wings reddish chestnut; quills black; rump and tail like polished 

 steel, glossed with green ; under tail coverts dull green. 



The young bird figured in the Oiseaux dorees, is brown above; 

 throat and breast white ; belly light yellow ; back and tail brown, 

 the latter paler. This last seems to coincide with Var. A. 



9.-GOULPOURAH CREEPER— Pl. lxxiv. 



TOTAL length five inches and a half. Bill near one inch, dusky, 

 slightly bent the whole length ; crown, even with the eyes, green, 

 and the feathers rather full ; hind part of the neck and back light 

 chestnut ; chin, throat, and breast fine crimson ; from each side of 

 chin a line of blue, three quarters of an inch long, curving on the 

 sides of the neck within the crimson ; belly, thighs, and vent green, 

 but less deep than on the crown ; wings and tail deep green, the last 

 full two inches long, and the middle feathers run to a point, the 

 others gradually shorter ; greater quills dull chestnut ; legs dusky. 

 Inhabits India, shot at Goulpourah in 1796. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



