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CRIMSON CREEPER. 



•Certhia sangumea. C. pkoenicea, remigibus caudaque nigrisy crisso 



albOf rostro rectiusculo. 

 Deep-crimson Creeper, with black wing and tail-feathers, white 



vent, and straitish bill. 

 Certhia sanguinea. C. saturate coccinea, dbdomine obscuro, crisso 



albo, remigibus secundarlis castaneo marginatis, primoribus reC" 



tricibusque nigris. Lath, ind, orn. 

 Crimson Creeper. Lath. syn. 

 L'Heoro-taire cramoisi. VielL Certh.'pL 66. 



The length of this species is about five inches 

 and a half; and its habit somewhat alHed to that 

 of a Motacilla, the bill having but a very slight 

 flexure : the colour of the bird is deep crimsoo, 

 with the wings and tail black: the smaller wing- 

 coverts are however crimson, the larger edged with 

 dull red, and the quill-feathers with chesnut: the 

 tail is rather short, and composed of slightly 

 pointed feathers: the vent is whitish; the bill 

 black, and the legs brown. Monsr. Viellot has 

 figured this species in his elegant work on the 

 genus Certhia: the specimen from which his 

 figure was taken appears to have had the whole of 

 the abdomen of the same deep crimson with the 

 other parts; in the Leverian specimen it was of a 

 dusky or brownish cast. Native of the Sandwich 

 Isles- 



