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which Monsieur Viellot cannot consider it as at all 

 allied; but regards it as the young of some widely 

 different species. The specimen is in the British 

 Museum. 



SENEGAL CREEPER. 



Certhia Senegalensis. C. ingro-violaceaf alis caudaque fuscis, ver* 

 iice gulaque viridi-aureis, pectore coccineo viridi-aureo undulato, 



Violet-black Creeper, with brown wings and tail, gold-green 

 crown and throat, and scarlet breast with gold-green un- 

 dulations. 



Certhia Senegalensis. C. nigricans j gutture viridi-nitente, pectore 



purpures, Lin. Si/st. Nat. 

 Senegal Creeper. Mus, Lev. No, 3. Lath, syn, 

 Le Soui-manga violet a poitrine ronge. Viell, Certh, pi, 3. 



This species I have myself long ago described 

 in the work entitled Museum Leverianum. It is 

 highly distinguished by the splendour and variety 

 of its colours, and measures nearly five inches in 

 length. The back of the neck, upper part of the 

 sides, and lower part of the abdomen are of a deep 

 velvet-black: the wings and tail, brown, with a 

 slight ferruginous cast : the upper part of the head 

 bright gold-green : the throat the same, but on the 

 part immediately beneath the lower mandible 

 somewhat more obscure than on the sides: at 

 each corner of the beak is an oblong black spot : 

 the breast and upper part of the belly of the most 

 vivid crimson, transversly undulated with numerous 

 bliieish-green streaks ; this appearance is owing to 



