CREEPER. 243 



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3.— RED-SPOTTED CREEPER. 



Certhia cruentata, Ind. Orn. i. 296. L\n. i. 187. Gm. Lin. i. 478. 



Bengalensis, Bris. iii. 663. Id. 8vo. ii. 18. Klein, 108. 19. Gerin. ii. t. 198. 1. 



Dicajum cruentatum, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 168. 

 Soui-manga rouge, noir et blanc, Buf. v. 514. 

 Black, white, and red Indian Creeper, Edw. t. 81. 

 Red-backed Creeper, Skate's Zool. viii. 250. pi. 35. 

 Red-spotted Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 736. 



LENGTH three inches and a quarter. Bill scarcely half an 

 inch, black; plumage above blue black; along this space three 

 bright red spots, the first on the crown, reaching from one eye to the 

 other, the second behind the neck, and the third on the middle of 

 the back; upper tail coverts the same; all beneath white ; quills and 

 tail blue black; legs black. 



Inhabits Bengal. 



A.— Red-spotted Creeper, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 161. 



Among the drawings in the collection of Mr. Lambert, I 

 observe one similar, but instead of being white beneath, it is pale 

 blue ; another drawing represents one, in which the under parts are 

 white, but the eye placed in a patch of black. 

 Both these last inhabit New-Holland. 



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