have been given to the refpedive fpecies ; efpecially 

 where they are^in any degree fubjed to vary in point 

 of color. The trivial name violacea applied by 

 Linnaeus to the bird at prefent reprefented, feems 

 peculiarly unfortunate ; the head, neck, and fhould- 

 ers being generally of a deep gold-green, with a 

 band only of iliining violet or chalybean-blue acrofs 

 the upper part of the breaft. The moft ftriking 

 charadteriftic mark of the bird is the bright orange- 

 yellow of the breaft and abdomen, for which reafon 

 I have applied to it the new name by which it is here 

 diftinguifhed. The Certhia crocata is a native of 

 Africa, and is principally found at the Cape of Good 

 Hope. It is reprefented in its natural lize. 



