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49— BLACK-NECKED CREEPER. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill more than half an inch, 

 moderately curved, and brown ; crown, above the eyes, and nape 

 chestnut ; back, wing coverts, and rump dull pale green, the rest of 

 the wing and tail brown, the latter cuneiform ; all beneath from the 

 chin white ; from the nostrils a broad stripe of black, passing through 

 the eye, growing narrower as it approaches the wing, and continues 

 on each side beneath it; thighs black; legs pale brown. 



Inhabits India. 



50.— GLOSSY CREEPER. 



Soui-manga l'Eclatant, O'is. dor. ii. pi. 4. 



LENGTH six inches and a half. Head, throat, and upper parts 

 violet, with a gilded gloss ; breast bright red, mixed towards the 

 lower part with violet ; beginning of the belly blue ; sides greenish, 

 with two pale yellow tufts ; lower belly black ; upper and under tail 

 coverts green. 



Supposed to inhabit Africa, and to be a new Species. 



