CREEPER. 



117 



Polytmus •, Born. Thryf. p. 76. pi. 2. j, 



-f-HOOK-BIL- 



QUR people firft met with thefe birds at the iHand oi AtooK ^^^ ^^^ ^^' 



though they are common in all the Sandwich Iflandst where 



they are faid to be gregarious, though not met with alive by any 



of our people. Thofe with a variegated plumage are young 



birds. The general name for them is Eee-eve, though they called 



them at Atooi, Heoro-taire f. 



African Creeper, Gen. Syn, ii, p. 717. N" 18, 18. 



Br. Muf. ^'^^' C' 



AFRICAN CR. 

 T EN GTH five inches and a half. Bill an inch and a quarter, Description, 

 I moderately bent, and black : head, throat, and breaft, green, 



glofled with copper bronze, appearing in fome lights purple : 

 leffer wing coverts and back fine gilded green : tail coverts the 

 fame, very long, reaching almoft to the end of the tail : acrofs the 

 breaft a narrow band of vermilion, not glofly : belly and vent 

 dufky black : the greater wing coverts and quills are brown, 

 tinged with green ; tail feathers the fame, fringed on the edges 

 with green : legs black. 



Inhabits Africa, I fufpeft this to be a mere variety of the P&*cx, 

 African Creeper. 



* Our 4frican Creepir, vol. ii. p. 717. A. is figured irt the fame platt, and 

 likewife called Polytmus. 



t See Ceoi's LafiFoya^e, ii, p. 207, 227.— iii. p. J 19, andApp. 



Famous 



