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 THE SENEGAL CREEPER. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill flender, incurvated, fliarp-pointed. 



Nostrils generally fmall. 



Tongue in fhape various, in fome fliarp-pointed, in others ciliated, in other» 



tubular. 

 Toes placed three before and one behind; back toe large; cl?- > iiooked 



and long. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, &c. 



Violet-black Creeper, with brown wings and tail, crown and throat gold- 

 green, breaft fcarlet, with gold-green undulations. 



Senegal creeper. 



Lath. Synopf, i. p. 709. 

 Le Souis -manga violet a poitrine rouge. 



Buff. oij. 5. p. ^ 



THIS bird is highly diftinguifhed by the variety and fplendor of its colours. 

 The back of the neck, the upper part of the fides, and the lower part 

 of the abdomen are of a deep velvet-black : the wings and tail brown, with a 

 flight caft of ferruginous : the upper part of the head of the moft fplendid 

 golden-green that can be conceived : the throat the fame, but on the part 

 immediately beneath the lower mandible fomewhat more obfcure than on the 



fides. 



