CREEPER. 131 



Le Grimpereau verd du Cap de B. Efperance, See^ Voy, Ini, vol, ii. p. 208. 53. 



pi. 1 16. f. 2. BLUE-feUMPED 



• CR 



CIZE of the Canary Bird. Bill bent, and black: head, neck. Description, 



back, and wing coverts, light changeable green : quills and 

 tail reddifli, or glofly rufous : rump fky-blue : throat red : legs 

 black. 

 Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, and has an agreeable note. Place, 



Le Grimpereau de Malacca, Son. Vey. Intl. vol. ii. p. 209, pi. 116. f. i. S+/ 



LilED CR 



BIGGER than the lafl. Bill black : irides red : the forehead 

 , , , , 1 1 • J I -J- -n Description. 



deep changeable green : behind the eye is a dirty greeniih 



band, paffing half way down the fide of the neck, where it is 

 rounded at the endj parallel to, and beneath this, is a fecond, of 

 glofly violet, which arifes at the gape, and is continued on to 

 the wing : the throat is red brown : the lefler wing coverts vio- 

 let, with a metalline glofsj the others the fame, inclining to red : 

 the quills dirty brown : the back, rump, and tail, are changeable 

 violet : breaft, belly, and thighs, yellow : legs brown. 



A flight variety of this is in the colledion of Colonel Davies. 

 Length four inches. Head, neck, and all above, violet purple : 

 fides of the head, beneath the eyes, greenifli brown ; chin and 

 throat inclining to red : wing coverts, fcapulars, and rump, glofly 

 violet purple : quills brown, edged with duflcy olive : tail black, 

 edged with glofly purple : beneath, from the breaft, yellow. 



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