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SPLENDID CREEPER. 



Certhia splendida. C. aureo-viridi-chalyhea, alis caudaque nigris, 

 fascia pectorali rubrUy pennis uropygiijibroso'elongatis. 



Steel-blue and gold-green Creeper, with black wings and tail, red 

 pectoral bar, and fibrose-elongated uropygial plumes. 



Certhia lotenia. ? C. caruka, fascia pectorali rubro-aurea, loris 

 airis, Lin. S]/st. Nat, 



Le Soui-manga a plumes soyeuses. Viell. Certh, f, 82. 



L'Eclataut. Viell. Certh. t.2. . 



African Creeper. Far. C. Lath. suppL 



The length of this highly beautiful species is 

 rather more than five inches ; the bill and legs are 

 black : the head and throat deep violet-blue, with 

 a gloss of gold on the crown : upper part of the 

 neck, back, wing-coverts, and tail-coverts of a 

 deep but very brilliant golden green ; the feathers 

 of a fibrous nature, and the tail-coverts in particular 

 stretching to a greater extent over the tail than in 

 most other species: across the middle of the breast 

 runs a bright-red bar, beyond which the abdomen 

 and thighs are of the same deep violet-blue colour 

 ias the breast : the wings and tail are black. Native 

 of Africa. 



This species is considerably allied to the Certhia 

 Afra of Linnaeus, of which it is even considered a^ 

 a variety by Dr. Latham. 



