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BLACK-CHINNED CREEPER. 



Certhia Cocinsinica. C. viridis, subtus cccrulescens, gula maris- 



nigra flam cincta,f(Bminm ccerulca. 

 Green Creeper, blueish beneath, with the throat of the male 



black edged with yellow, of the female blue. 

 Turdus Cochinsinensis. T. viridis, loris gutaque nigris, sub gula 



lunula lata Jlava, ad basin rostri utrinque macula ccerulea. Lath, 



ind, orn, ^ 

 Le Verdin de la Cochinchine. Buff, ois, PL Enl. 643^ 

 Black-chinned Thrush. Lath, syn. 

 Le Verdin. Viell. Certh. pi 77. 78. 

 Turdus Malabaricus ? Malabar Thrush ? Lath, 



Length near six inches : colour a fine green, 

 inclining to blue on the under parts: throat black, 

 bordered with a yellowish cast, and from the cor- 

 ners of the bill on each side springs a lilac-co- 

 loured streak along the upper part of the black 

 throat : the insides of the quill and tail-feathers- 

 are dusky: the smaller coverts blue: the bill and 

 legs black : the tongue the length of the bill, and. 

 probably, in the living bird, extensile; ciliated at 

 the tip, as in most of the Creepers, to which genus 

 it more properly belongs than to that of Thrush, 

 in which it is placed by modern ornithologists^ 

 Native of India. The female, according to Viellot, 

 differs in being of a somewhat paler and bluer cast 

 than the male, and iu having the throat entirely 

 blue, but edged with a tinge of yellow, as in the 

 male. 



