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BEAUTIFUL CREEPER. 



Certhia pulchella. C. viridi-aurea, pectore aumntio-rubro, remi" 



gibus caudaque fuscis, rectricibus duabus mediis elongatis. 

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



and tail, with the two middle tail-feathers elongated. 

 Certhia pulchella. C. rectricibus duabus intermediis longissimis, 



corpore viridi-nitentef pectore rubro, Lin. Si/sf, Nat. 

 Le Soiii-manga vert dore changeant a longue queue. Bttf. ois. 



PI. Enl. 670. f. 1. 

 Le petit Soui- manga a longue queue. Viell. Certh. pL 40. 

 Beautiful Creeper. Lath, syn. 



An elegant species : length about seven inches 

 and a quarter: colour green-gold, glossed with 

 copper; but the breast orange-red: the wings 

 brown, and the tail, which is strongly cuneiform, 

 blackish brown, edged with gold-green ; the two 

 middle feathers greatly surpassing the length of 

 the rest. Native of Senegal. 



