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mEY CREEPEti. 



Ccrthia currucaria. C, olivacea, subtus grisescens, redricihus 

 cequaHbus,jugido vitta longitudinali violaceo. Lath, ind, orn. 

 - Olivaceous Creeper, greyish beneath, with even tail, and lon- 

 gitudinal violet throat-stripe. 



Certhia currucaria. C. olivacea, subtus Jlavescens, rectricibus 

 (jcqualibus. Lin, Si/st. Nat, 



Le Souimanga a cravatte violette. Viell. Certh. pi. 15. 



Grey Creeper. Lath. syn. 



Certhia jugularis. Csubgrisea^ subtus luteay gula violacea, rec- 

 tricibus duabus extimis apice flams. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Le petit Grimpereau des Philippines. Buf. ois, PL Enl. 576. 

 f.3. 



Le Soui-manga a cravate bleu. Viell. Certh. pL 31. 

 Grey Creeper. Var. A. Lath, syn.. 



Described by Brisson: length about five mches^: 

 colour grey-brown; yellowish-white beneath: from 

 the lower mandible down the breast runs a deep 

 and glossy violet-coloured stripe, and the smaller 

 wing-coVerts are of similar colour: th^ tail is 

 blackish, with a blue gloss on the sides of the fea- 

 thers. Native of the Philippine isles. In a spe- 

 cimen figured in the work of Monsr. Viellot the 

 violet stripe is continued down the whole abdomen, 

 ' and it is also observed, that under each w^ing, as 

 in many of this genus, is a tuft of yellow plumes. 

 Monsr. Viellot, with great probability, considers 

 this bird rather as the young of some other species 

 than as constituting a distinct species itself. He alsb 

 figures what seems to be a mere variety of the pre- 

 ceding, though he himself is of a different opinion. 



