264 CREEPER. 



70— ORANGE-BREASTED CREEPER. 



Certhia aurantia, Ltd. Om. i. 295. Gm. Lin. i. 472. 

 Orange-breasted Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 724. 



LENGTH four inches. Bill more than three quarters of an inch, 

 curved, black ; head, throat, neck behind, back, and wing coverts 

 green ; quills and tail dusky black ; neck before, and upper part 

 of the breast, high orange-red ; the lower and belly pale yellow ; 

 legs dusky. 



Inhabits Africa. — Mr. Smeathman. 



71— NEW-CALEDONIAN CREEPER. 



Certhia incana, Ind. Om. i. 296. 

 Greyish Creeper, Shaw's Zool. viii. 260. 

 New-Caledonian Creeper, Gen. Syn. Sup-, ii. 161. 



SIZE very small. Colour of the plumage brownish ; the neck 

 and quills incline to hoary. 



Inhabits New-Caledonia. — From the M.S. of the late Mr. An- 

 derson. 



72.— FAMILIAR CREEPER. 



Prinia familiaris, Lin. Trans, xiii. 165. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill rather stout, broad at the base, 

 gradually tapering to the point, nostrils at the base, large, in a 



