BIRDS. PICili. 29. Certhia, 
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Inhabits the Philippine JJlands : 42 inches long. 
Bi/l, legs and claws black ; to-iigue tubular, forked ; quill-fea- 
ihers brown, with paler edges ; 2 middle tail-feathers black, 
with a gold glofs, the jreft bjackilh tipt with white. 
^'<cea. 
Two middle tail-feathers very long; body gloiry-violet 
breall and belly pile yellow. 
Violti-headed Cr. 
Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope ; above 6 inches long ; makes 
a loofe, filky, at tificial neft. 
■Bill, legs and claws blackiflt ; lower part of the back, rump 
and upper tail-coverts olive; lower wing-coverts grey, greater 
and quill-feathers brown ; tail wedged, bktk-brown. 
Deep blue; wings brown; bill and legs black. 
JJiatic Cr. 
Inhabits India : 4 inches long. 
green ; back ferruginous : belly yellow ; chin and 
rump azure. ‘ Ceylonefe Cr. 
5 . Green, beneath white ; chin, breaft, back and wings 
brown : tail black. 
Irhtbits Philippine Ijlands : 4, 2) 4^ Inches long. 
Bill I'ububte, black, as long as the head ; quill feathers brown, 
the etiges of the tip pale ; tail-feathers ecjual, blackiflt, the 
a outer edged with whitlfli ; legs black. 
Cap 
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Blue ; band acrofs the eyes, fhonldcrs, wings and tail black ; 
legs brown. Black and blue Cr. 
Dufley-green ; inner fides of the tjuill-fcathers and lower 
wing-coverts fulphur. 
Inhabits Brafil and Cayenne ; 4| inches long. 
Bill, hind-head and claws black ; tongue as long as the bill, 
fringed; crotitT! pale green-blue ; inner fide of the 
thers and lower wing-coverts lulphur. 
Plue ; pciSoral bar gold-red; lores black- Loten's Cr. 
Inhabits Madagafcar and Ceylon; 5I inches long ; builds a 
^^up-fbaped nell of the down of herbs ; lays 5—6 eggs, 
utbulate, black, twice as long as the head; tongue cora- 
preffed at the tip ; head, neck, back, rump and upper tail- 
..fioverts fometimes blue, fometimes gold-green ; hrtajl, belly 
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