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COLLARED CREEP ERr 



Gerthia chalybea. C. mridi-aurea, remigihm caudaque fuscis 



pectore rubro, fascia anfica chalybea. 

 Green-gold Creeper, with brown wings and tail, and red breast 



bounded above by a steel-blue bar. 

 Certhia chalybea. C. viridis nitens, pectore rubro, fascia anticm 



chalybea. Lin. Syst. Nat. 

 Le Soui-manga a collier. Buff, ois, PLEnl. 246. f 3. 

 Collared Creeper. Lath. syn. 



Le Soui-manga a collier. VielL Certh. pi. 13. pL 10. pi 18f 

 pL 80. 



Gerthia Capensis. Lin. Syst. Nat.- an avis junior ? 



Length about four inches and a half: head, 

 neck, breast, smaller wing-coverts, and back gold- 

 green, accompanied by a gloss of copper : across 

 the lower part of the breast, immediately beneath 

 the gold-green colour, a moderately broad, double 

 bar, the uppermost of which is bright violet or 

 steel-blue, and the lower bright red : abdomen and 

 thighs grey-brown : wings and tail dusky brown : 

 bill and legs black : beneath each wing a tuft of 

 yellow plumes. Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, feeding on small insects and the honey of 

 flowers, and said to have a very fine note. The 

 violet or upper bar of the breast is not always dis- 

 tinct: the female is grey-brown, paler beneath, as 

 is also the young, which latter seems to be the 

 Certhia Capensis of Linnasus. 



Mons. Viellot, in his splendid work on thi^ 

 genus, figures a specimen a trifle larger in size:^ 



