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Limans gives it two very Jong feathers in the tail j but as the
figure he quotes in Briffon has them not, it is moll likely he had
fome reafon for afierting this, though he does not mention any.
Inhabits the Philippine JJles, and particularly Luzonia, if it be
the fpecies alluded to by M. Sonnerat.
On a fuppofition that the Creepers of the old world are as long
in gaining their full plumage as thofe of the new, Buffon thinks
it not improbable to fuppofe, that the five laft mentioned are all
varieties, or fexual differences of each other : but as this cannot
be clearly afeertained as yet, I think better to let them Hand as
they do, on the authority of their deferibers, till time, the clearer
up of all doubts, fhall evince the contrary.
Certhia Zeylonica, Lin. Syf. i. p. 188. N° 23.
Le Grimpereau olive des Philippines, Brif. orn* iii. p. 623. N® 10. pi. 34,
f. 4.— PI. enl. 576. f. 4.
Le Soui-manga olive à gorge pourpre, Buf. oif. v. p. 506.
Grimpereau premier de Plfle de Luçon, Son. Fey. pi. 30. A ?
g lZ E of a Wren : length four inches. Bill three quartersof an
inch, and black : the upper parts of the body are of a dull
brownifh olive : the under parts yellow : but the throat, fore part
of the neck, and breaft, are of a beautiful bright deep violet
: the quills brown: the edges of the feathers dull olive;
fthe tail the fame colour as the wings : legs and claws black.
Inhabits the Philippine JJles.
Sr. Ma/,
Br. Mo/.
T ENGTH four inches and a half. Bill more than half an inch,
and bent, the bafe white, tip black : top o f the head and Tides,
to' beneath the eyes, green : chin, neck, breaft, back, and wings*
brown : lefler wing coverts green : rump reddifh purple ; lower
part of the breaft and belly white : tail black: legs brown.
A fpecimen of this is -in the Britijh Mufeum.
Certhia olivacea, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 185. N° 5.
Le Grimpereau olive de Madagafcar, Brif. orn. iii. p. 625. N° n .
Soui-manga olive a gorge pourpre, Buf. oif. v. p. 507. femellef
Grimpereau olive de Madagafcar, Pi. enl. 575. f. 1 ?
T ESS than our Creeper: total length four inches. Bill above
half an inch long, and black : colour of the upper parts,
from the forehead to the rump, dull olive-green, inclining to
brown on the forehead and crown; the under parts grev brown :
round the eyes ‘whitifh ■: quills and tail brown, with a tinge of
olive-green ; the two outer feathers white at the ends : legs pale
brown.
Inhabits Madagafcar. This furely can be no other than the fe male
of the laft, though two circumftances join to forbid it, viz.
the bill being lhorter by one-third, and the tail much longer; in
this laft fpecies it being nineteen lines in length, and in the former
only fourteen, according to Briffm, whom I fhould not do juftice to,
in fuppofing him to fail of his ufual exa&nefs : however, I cannot
venture at prefent to place it otherwife than as a diftindt fpecies.
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