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SYNOPSIS. 
1823. — Sucrier a plastron rouge , Le Vaill. Ois. d’Afr. 
vi. p. 176, pi. 300, M. & F. — Bluc-rumped Creeper , 
Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 239 (syn. exc). 
Above , head, back, rump, less, w.-covers, deep golden- 
green with a bronzed lustre ; up. t.- covers steel-blue, wings 
umber-brown, tail black. — Below, chin black; throat, fore part 
of the neck, and upper breast, goldcn-greeu, the latter at the 
lower edge shaded into violet and steel-blue, forming a pectoral 
band not passing the line of the wings ; lower breast and ant. 
half of the belly deep scarlet-red; post, half of belly, vent, 
flanks, and und. t.-covers, yellowish wood-brown ; axillary tufts 
pale king’s-yellow ; bill, tarsi, and feet, black. — Length 5^ in. 
to 5 in. 4-10ths ; bill to forehead, 1 in. ; w. to longest quill, 
2 in. 7-lOths. 
$ Above , liair-brown, darker on the wings and tail, — outer 
web of the outer feather of the latter, white. — Below , wax- 
yellow (feathers pale liair-brown at the base), shading into 
yellowish- white on the vent and und. t.-covers ; bill, tarsi, and 
feet, dark umber-brown ; proportions equal to g. 
Hah. S. Africa. The forests of the E. coast to Caffraria on 
the Gamtoo and Sondag rivers. Does not reach the S. extre- 
mity of the continent, but is restricted to the line of the great 
forests. Le Vail 1 . — Note. In the descript, in the Syst. Nat. it 
is “ abdomine albo 
N. chalybea, Linnams, 1766. 
Certhia chalybea , Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 186 (syn. exc.) ; 
Gm. Linn. i. p. 475 (syn. exc.) ; Lath. Ind. Om. 
i. p. 284 (syn. exc.). — Certhia iorquata C. B. Spei. Le 
grimpereau a collier dn C. de B. Espercmce , Briss. Or- 
nithol. 4to. iii. p. 643, pi. xxxii. fig. 1 ; 8vo. ii. p. 13 
(syn. of last exc.). — Grimpereau du C. de B. Espe- 
_ ranee , Buff. PI. Enl. 246, fig. 3. — Cinnyris chalybea 5 
Sw. Zool. Illust. pi. 95. — Collared Creeper, Lath. Gen. 
Hist. iv. p. 247 (syn. exc.). — Ckalybean Creeper, Shaw 
and Nodd., Nat. Miscel. x. pi. 381. — Red-collared Sun- 
bird, Sw. B. of W. Afr. ii. p. 132. (The last may be 
found to belong to the next.) 
