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Show 316 AVES. with their great claws. The beak is triangular and depressed at base very long and very slender. ' One species only is known, which inhabits the south of Eu. rope, Certhia muraria, L.; Enl. 372; Naum. 141. It is a pretty bird of a light ash colour, the coverts and edges of a part of the wing-quills bright reel. The throat of the male is black.(l) NEOTARINIA, Illig. Tail n~t worn, nor are these birds climbers, but their moderately long, arcuated, pointed and compressed beak resembles that of the Creepers. They are all foreign to Europe. The name of GuiTGUITS is more particularly applied to cer· tain small species, the males of which are ornamented with lively colours. Their tongue is filamentous and bifid.(2) We may separate from them the largest and least beautiful species, whose tongue is short and cartilaginous. Merops rufus, Gm.; Enl. 739; Figulus albogularis, Spix, 78. A bird from South America, the size of a Kingfisher, reddish above, with a whitish throat, which constructs a nest upon shrubs, arched over like an oven.(3) Dio.JEuM, Cuv.( 4) The tail not worn, neither do they climb; their sharp pointed, ( 1) Oertlt. fusca, Lath. Vieill. 65, appears to me to belong to this subgenus. (2) Oertlt. cyanea, Enl. 83, 2; Vieill., 41, 42, 43 and Gal. 176;-caJ1'Ulea, Edw. 21, Vieill., 44, 45, 46, two American species, to which we must probably ad~ some from the East, most of which are reel, as 0. sanguinea, Vieill. 66;-C. cardi· nalis, Id., 54, 58;-0. borbonica, Enl. 681, 2;-Vieill. Gal. 167, has given to these birds the name of CoEnEn A. N.B. 0. armillata, Sparm. 36;-0. cayana, 682,,2, &c. are mere varieties of the cyanea or of the c;erulea. (3) This bird is the type of the genus OPIIIE or 0l'ETIOR11YNCHOS of Tem.; Ful· lU.R'lus, Vieill. Gal. 182. The genus FIGuLus, Spix, does not differ f1·oro it. Add the Piccltion-baillon, Viell, Gal. 172;-Pomatorltinos montanus, Horsf. Jav.;-Pomat. turdinus, T. Col. 441;-Pom. trivirgatus, T. Col. 443;-0limacteriB pieum· nus, Tern. Col. 281, 1;-0lim. scandens, Jb. 2;-0ertltia jlaveola, Edw. 122,36~ Vieill. 51;-0. varia (Mot. varia, L.), Edw. 30, 2; Vieill. 74, which is the ~fniotille varie, Id. Gal. 169;-0. semitorquata, Vieill. 56;-the Promerops olifatrt. Vaill. Huppes et Prom. pl. v (Mer. olivaceus, Sh. ).-Here, also, is the place, 1 sut pect, for the 0. virerl8, Vieill. 57 and 58, and sannio, I d. 64, which I have not seen, but which are distinguished by their slightly forked tails. this ( 4) The name of a very small bird in the Indies, according to JElian. To subgenus belong, Gerth. erythronotos, Viell. 11, 35. The 0. cruentata, Edw. 81 C is probably a. different age of the same;-0. rubra, Vieill. pl.liv, of which the ' PASSERINlE. 317 arcuated beak, which is not longer than the head, is depressed and widened at base. They inhabit the East Indies, are very smalJ, and generally have some scarlet in their plumage. MELITHREPTus, Vieill. The tail not worn; beak extremely long, and curved almost into a semicircle. From the South Sea Islands. One of them, Oerthia vestiara, Sh.; Vieill. Ois. Dor. II, pl. 52, and Gal. 181, is covered with scarlet feathers used by the Sandwich islanders in the manufacture of the beautiful mantles of that colour which they so highly prize.(l) ' CINNYRIS, Cuv.(2) Tail not worn; edges of the two mandibles of the long and very slender beak, finely serrate; the tongue, which is susceptible of protrusion, terminates in a little fork. They are small birds, the males of which, during the nuptial season, are ornamented with metallic colours, approaching in lustre to those of the Hummingbird, of which, in this respect, they are the representatives in the eastern continent, they being principally found in Africa and the archipelago of India. They live on the nectar of flowers, which they suck up with their bills; their disposition is lively, and their notes very agreeable. The beauty of their plumage has made them acommon ornament of our cabinets, but as it is very different in both sexes during the winter, &c. it becomes an extremely difficult matter to characterize the species. The tail, in most of them, is equal.(3) erythropygia, Lath. 2d supp., is probably the fem:lle;-the Nectarinia rubicoaa, Tem. Col. f. 2 and 3, does not appear to differ from it.-0. tceniata, Sonner. II, Voy. pl. cvii, fig. 3;-0. cantil/ana, lb. Id. 2;-Motacilla hirundinacea, Sh. Nat. Mise. No. 114. (1) Add Oertlt. obscura, Vieill. Ois'. Dor. II,pl.liii;-O.pacijica,Id. pl. lxiii; the other species of this naturalist belong to very different genera, chiefly to the Philedons, &c. (2) The Greek name of some very sma.U unknown bird. The natives of Madagascar call them Soui'-mangat, i. c. eat-sugar. Vieillot has adopted the above name and genus, Gal. 177. (3) Certh. splendida, Sh. Vieill. 82;-0. ca.ffia, Edw. 347;-0. superba, Vieill. 22;-0.lotenia, Enl. 575, 2, 3, Vieill. 34;-ametltystina, Vieill. 5 and 6;-cltalybrea, E?I: 246, 3, VieiU. 10, 13, 18, 24, 34, 80;-omnicolor, Seb. I, 69, 5;-cuprea, Yleill, 23;-purpurata, Edw. 265, Vieill. 11 ;-cyanocephala, Vieill. 7;-Z. zeilontea, Enl. 576, 4; Vieill. 29, 30;-dubia, Vieill. 81;-senegalensis, Vieill. 8;--.pe· =;n~nl. 246, 1, 2; Vie ill. 16, 32, of which the le.pida of Sparm. 35, is the female;V~ aacariensis, Vicill. 18;-currucaria, Enl. 576, 3, Vieill. 31;-rubro-.fusca, leill. 27;-fuliginoaa, Vieill. 20;-maculata, Vieill. 21;--t~enusta, Vieill. 79;- |