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AMETHYST-THROATED CREEPER. 



Certhia Amethystina. C. suhviolaceo-nigra, vertice viridi-aureo, 

 gula uropygioque amethystinis. 



Subviolaceous-*black Creeper, with gold-green crown, and ame- 

 thyst throat and rump. 



Le Soui-manga a front dore. VielL Certh. pi. 5, 6. 



Size and habit of Lotenian Creeper: colour 

 velvet-black, with a slight gloss of violet : forehead 

 gold-green: throat bright violet or amethyst-co- 

 lour, with a changeable cast of blue: rump of 

 similar colour: tips of the shoulders steel-blue: 

 bill and legs black. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope. In its young state this species is said to 

 be brown above, and pale ash-coloured beneath, 

 spotted with brown ; the forehead and throat as in 

 the advanced bird, but Jess bright. 



