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SYNOPSIS. 
£ Above , uniform yellowish umber-brown, slightly darker on 
the w. and t. ; coronal patch passing the line of the eyes, im- 
bricated, deep green. — Below , chin velvet-black, bordered by a 
maxillary stripe of deep green ; fore part of the neck and up- 
per breast straw-vellow, bordered on the lower edge by dark 
umber-brown ; lower breast, belly, and sides, pale chestnut- 
brown ; und. t. -covers dark umber-brown ; bill, tarsi, and feet, 
black. — Length, 4 in. 8-10ths ; bill to forehead, 7-10ths ; w. to 
long, quill, 2 in. 4-10fchs. 
$ Above, dark hair-brown, on the quills andt. nearly umber- 
brown. — Underneath , pale yellowish grey, clearest in the middle 
of the belly ; the feathers darker along the centre of each ; bill, 
legs, and tarsi, dark umber brown. — Length, 4 in. 6-10ths. 
Hab. Senegal, Gervais. Eboe on the Niger, Thompson. 
N. violacea, Linnseus, 1766. 
Certhia longicauda minor C. B. Spei. Briss. Omithol. iii. 
p. 649, pi. xxxiii. fig. 6 ; 8vo. ii. p. 15, 1763. — CeHhia 
violacea , Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 188, 1766 ; Linn. Man- 
tissa, p. 525, 1771 ; Lath. Ind. Om. i. p. 288, 1790 
Le Souimmiga a capuchon violet , “ C. violaceits ,” Vieill. 
Enc. Method, p. 598. — Le Sudsier orcunga , Lc Vaill. vi. 
p. 152, pi. 292. 
.4 hove, crown, back and sides of the neck, upper part of 
the back, and bend of the w., dark golden-green, varied with 
bronze and purple ; back, rump, up. t.-covcrs, edges of the 
feathers of the w. and t., yellowish green ; w. and t. pale um- 
ber-brown. — Below, chin and throat dark golden-green ; centre 
of the breast, and nearly bordering the green of the sides as 3 
narrow crescent, violet purple ; lower part and centre of the 
breast and belly, deep reddish orange, shading into gamboge- 
yellow on the flanks and und. t.-covers ; axillary tufts pale king’s- 
yellow ; bill, tarsi, and feet, black. — Length, 6 in. ; of bill to 
forehead, 9-10ths; of w. to long, quill, 2 in. 2-10tlis. 
Hab. Vicinity of Cape of Good Hope, Le Vaill. — Note. Center 
t. -feathers exceed the others by 9-10ths or 1 in. ; t. gra- 
duated. 
