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COPPER CREEPER. 



Certhia cuprea. C, aureo'cuprea, violaceo viridique nitens, ahdomine 

 atro, remigibus caudaque fuscis. 



Golden-copper Creeper, with green and violet glosses, black ab- 

 domen, and brown wings and tail. 



Certhia aenea. C, ex viridi orichalcea, alis fuliginosisy cauda atro- 

 nitente, remigibus rectricibusque nigris. Lath, ind, orn, Sparrm, 

 Mus. Carls, fasc. 4. i. 78. 



Le Soui-mauga tricolor. Viell. Cerfh. pL 23. 



Cupreous Creeper. Lath, syn, suppL 2. 



Length about five inches: head, neck, begin- 

 ning of the breast, back, rump, and tail-coverts red- 

 dish copper-colour, with gilded violet and green 

 reflexions, according to the direction of the light: 

 under parts of the bird, from the breast, deep black: 

 wings and tail brown: bill and legs dusky. Native 

 of Malimba and other parts of Africa. 



PURPLED CREEPER, 



Certhia purpurata. C. purpureo-violacea viridi nitens, fascia peC" 

 torali punicea, remigibus caudaque nigricantibus , r astro majusculo. 



Purple-violet Creeper, with dark-red, pectoral bar, blackish quill-^ 

 feathers and tail, and largish bill. 



Purple Indian Creepers. Edw. pL 265. 



Soui-manga pourpre. Buff, ois. Viell, Certh, pi, ll. 



This, which has sometimes been confounded 

 with the Collared Creeper, is most evidently a very 



