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CERTHIAD^. 



Sharpbill above olive-green, beneath yellowish-white, with dusky 

 spots; the head with a crimson incumbent crest ; its sides with 

 three transverse yellowish-lines. 



Oxyrhynchus cristatus. Swain. Zool. Illust. v. i. p. 49. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length seven inches : this spe- 

 cies is adorned with an elegant and slender crest, of 

 which the feathers on the top of the head are very 

 long, fine, and decomposed ; the longest being on 

 the edges and the shortest in the middle ; the latter 

 are deep scarlet, and some of the others black ante- 

 riorly ; but the scarlet feathers are not perceptible 

 when the crest is depressed : the plumage of the back 

 and wings is of a very fine green, of which hue are the 

 margins of the quills and tail-feathers : the cheeks, 

 space round the beak, the eyebrows, and the throat, 

 are dotted and striped with white and greenish : the 

 under parts are shaded with white and yellowish- 

 green, and covered with a considerable number of 

 triangular dusky-brown spots : the legs and the beak 

 are blackish-blue. 



GENUS CCXLVII.-PHILYDOR, Spix. 



Rostrum subulatum, latera- 

 liter subcompressum, ad 

 apicem subcylindricum, 

 subdeclinu m, subaduncum, 

 emarginatum : mandibula 

 inferior breviore quam su" 

 periorem. 



Nares subbasales, rotundae, 

 minutae. 



Beak awl-shaped^ slightly 

 compressed laterally, ra- 

 ther cylindric towards the 

 tip, somewhat bent down 

 and hooked, emarginate : 

 the lower mandible shorter 

 than the upper. 



Nostrils nearly basal, round, 

 small. 



