NEW HOLLAND CREEPER. 2^5 



inches : back, Avings, and tail cinnamon -brown : 

 whole under parts of the bird, from the bill, white: 

 upper part of the head and back of the neck black, 

 marked on the hindhead by a white crescent, the 

 tips of which almost reach the eyes, being sepa» 

 rated only by a bright-red spot behind each eye : 

 bill black; legs brown. Native of New Holland. 



NEW HOLLAND CREEPER. 



•Certhia Novae Hollandiae. C. nigra subtus albo-striata, superciUis 

 maculaque aurium albiSj remigibus rectricibusque flam marginatis. 

 Lath, ind, orn. 



Black Creeper, striped beneath with white with white brows 



and ear-spot, and yellow-edged quill and tail-feathers. 

 New Holland Creeper. White's Sown. p. 186. pL l6 and 65, 

 L'Heoro-taire noir. ? Viell, Certh. pL 7 1, female. 

 L'Heoro-taire tachete. Viell, Certh, pi. 57. male. 



Described in White's Journal of a Voyage to 

 New South Wales. Length about seven inches : 

 general colour dusky, spotted in various parts with 

 white : neck, breast, belly, and sides more or less 



j marked with longitudinal streaks of white^ or, in 



1 other words, these parts are whitish, streaked with 

 longitudinal blackish spots: over each eye a white 



i streak, and on each side the neck and the begin- 

 ning of the back are also some streaks of the same 

 colour : remainder of the upper parts, and tail deep 

 brown, but the quill- feathers edged with briglit 

 yellow, forming a large patch of that colour on 

 each wing: tail-feathers, except the two middle 



I • V. VIII. p. I. 15 



