CREEPER. 



7°$ 



Br.Muf. 



T ENGTH five inches and a half. Bill an inch and three quar- 

 ters in length, curved like a Jickle, and of a dufky colour : 

 the upper parts of the head, neck, and body, are green : on the 

 head a glofs of violet : beneath, as far as the bread, violet : tail of 

 this laft colour : the great coverts and quills are pale brown : 

 belly and vent pale brown : legs the fame : claws black. 

 This is in the Britijh Mufeum:, but from whence unknown. 



6.- 



SICKLE- 



BILLED 



CR. 



Description. 



Male. 



Le Grimpereaa violet de Madagascar, Brif. orn. iii. p. 638. t. 32. 



f. z, 3. 

 Le Soui-manga, Buf. oif. v. p. 494. 



VIOLET 

 CR. 



Cl'IZE of a Wren : length above four inches. Bill three quarters of 

 an inch long, and black : the tongue fomewhat longer than the 

 bill, and bifid at the end. The male has the head, throat, neck, 

 upper part of the back, fcapulars, and wing coverts, fhining green, 

 with an olive glofs 3 the'ia'ft are yellowifh white beneath: lower 

 part of the back, rump, and upper taft coverts, olive brown : 

 breaft brown ; but between this and the neck are two tranfverfe 

 bands, the upper of which is blue, and the lower cheftnut: belly 

 and under tail coverts pale yellow : on the fhoulders is a fpot of 

 deep yellow : greater wing coverts brown, with the outer edges 

 olive, the inner whitifh : tail black ; the feathers edged with 

 green ; but the' outer feather is grey brown for half the length to 

 the end ; the next grey brown at the end only : legs and claws 

 black. 



4 X The 



Description, 



Male. 



