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SYNOPSIS. 
Gmel. Linn. i. 483 (syn. exc .). — Certliia polita, Lath. 
Ind. Ora. i. p. 287, 1790 . — Polished Creeper, Lath. Gen. 
Hist. iv. p. 245 . — Le Souimanga pov/rpre , Vieill. Oie. 
Dor. ii. pi. xi . — Purple Indian Cnepei\ Edw. Glean, ii. 
pi. 265, up. figure . — Ctnnyris purpurcUa , Vieill. Enc*. 
Method, p. 596, 1823; Cinrvyris polita , Jerd. Madras 
Journ. 1840, p. 127 . — Purple Creeper, Certh. purpurala, 
Shaw, Gen. Zool. viii. p. 201. 
$ Above , dark mctallic-green, with blue and purple reflec- 
tions ; w. umber-brown ; tail bluish black, feathers edged with 
green. — Below , chin velvet-black ; neck and upper parts of the 
breast dark metallic-grccn, shading at the lower edge into steel- 
blue, sometimes tinted with violet, lower breast with a narrow 
band of purplish red ; belly, vent, and und. t.-covers, yellowish 
hair-brown ; axillary tufts ample, king’s-yellow ; bill strong at 
the base, considerably curved, with the tarsi and feet black. — * 
Length, 5 in. ; of bill to forehead, 1 in. to lin. 1-1 0 th; of w. 
to long, quill, 2 in. 2 or 3-10ths. 
$ Above , u light greenish brown, quills darker, t. black. — 
Below , pale yellow ; (differs from J of N. mahrattensis ouly in 
darker tint of plumage above).” Jerd. 
Hub. Ceylon, Linn. Carnatic, on the west coast of the pe- 
ninsula, Jerd. Continental India. — Note. Varies in the intensity 
of the blue or purple shade of the plumage, and in the breadth 
of the reddish pectoral bar. 
N. mahrattensis, Latham, 1801. 
Certliia mahrattensis , Lath. Ind. Ora. Supp. p. xxxvi. 
1801 ; Jerd. Mad. Journ. 1840, p. 127 . — Le Souimanga 
du pays des Mahrattes , Vieill. Enc. Method. Ora. p. 595 
— Souimanga azure, C.cyaneus , Enc. Method, p. 599 ? — 
Le Souimanga violet, Vieill. Ois. Dor. pi. xii . — Purple 
Indian Creeper , Edw. Glean, ii. pi. 265, und. figure. — 
C. orientalis , Franck. Proceed. Zool. Journ. 1831, p. 122. 
Eastern Creeper, Lath. Gen. Hist. iv. p. 232, and Sugar 
Creeper, C. asiatica , p. 238, seem also synonims (syn. 
exc.). 
