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ASH-BELLIED CREEPER, 



Certhia verticalis. C. viridi-olivacea , subtus cinerascenSy vertice 

 viridif remigibus caudaque fnscis. Lath, ind. orn. 



Olive-green Creeper, pale cinereous beneath, with green crown, 

 and brown wing and tail-feathers. 



Ash-bellied Creeper. Lath, syn, suppl. 



Length five inches and a half: bill black : quill 

 and tail-feathers brown, edged with green : legs 

 black. Native of Africa. Described from a spe- 

 cimen in the British Museum. 



snuff-coloured creeper. 



Certhia tabacina. C. tabacina, subtus viridis, cauda viridi-mgri' 



cante, rectricibus duabus longissimis, 

 SnufF-coloured Creeper, green beneath, with blackish -green tail 



with the two middle feathers much elongated. 

 Certhia tabacina. C. rectricibis duabus intermediis longissimis^ 



corpore supra capite collogue tabacina, subtus viridi, rectricibus^, 



viridi-nigricanfibus. Lath. ind. orn. 

 Snuff-coloured Creeper, Lath, syn. suppl. 



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Length eight inches and a half: bill an mch 

 and quarter, not much bent, and of a blackish 

 brown colour : under wing-coverts yellow : two 

 middle tail-feathers double the length of the rest. 

 This species seems considerably allied to the Cer" 

 thia famosa. 



