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ginous: throat and rump glossy violet : breast and 

 belly red, paler as it descends; wings brown; tail 

 blackish brown : bill and legs black. This species 

 appears to vary considerably in the cast of its co- 

 Jours, the breast in some specimens being purplish 

 red, and the belly yellow. The female is said to 

 be olive-green above, and olive yellow beneath, and 

 has the two exterior tail-feathers on each side tip- 

 ped with grey. Native of the Philippine isles. 

 The Orange-breasted Creeper of Dr. Latham can 

 surely be no other than a variety of this species. 



VAR.? 



LITTLE BROWN AND WHITE CREEPER. 



Certhia pusilla. C. cupreo-fusca suhtus alba, cauda nigricanfc, 



superciliis apicibusque rectricum exteriorum albis. 

 Copper-brown Creeper, white beneath, with blackish tail; the 



eyebrows and tips of the outer tail-feathers white. 

 Certhia pusilla. C. grisea subtus alba, superciliis candidis, rectri- 



cibus fuscis apice albis. Lin. Si/st. Nat, 

 Red-breasted Creeper. Var. A, Lath, syn. 



Length three inches and a half: colour above 

 copper-brown, beneath white: above each eye a 

 white streak, and from the bill to each eye a dark 

 one: the exterior tail-feather on each side slightly 

 tipped with white: bill and legs brown. Native of 

 the East Indies ? This by Dr. Latham is consider- 

 ed as a variety of the Red-Breasted Creeper. 



