CREEPER. 707 



cheftnut : lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, 

 violet, with a changeable green and gold glofs : breaft and upper 

 part of the belly bright red : lower part of the belly, and the reft 

 of the under parts, yellowifh olive : the leffer wing coverts above 

 violet and green gold : the middle coverts brown, tipped v/ith 

 purplifh cheftnut : and the greater coverts and quills brown, with 

 rufous edges : tail black, with a polifhed fteel glofs j the outer 

 edges violet, with a green gold glofs : legs and claws brown. 



The female has the whole of the upper parts olive green, and Female. 

 thofe beneath olive yellow: the leffer wing coverts the fame co- 

 lour as the back : and four of the outer tail feathers are tipped 

 with grey ; which occupies moft of the feather, in proportion a? 

 it is moft outward. 



This fpecies inhabits the Philippine IJles in general. S-eba* Place. 



fays, that the bill is yellow, and the legs yellowifti : and alfo 

 adds, that it fings like a Nightingale. 



Certhia pufilla, Lin. Sjft. i. p. ^85. N° 3. %. 



Le Grimpereau des Indes, Br if. cm. iii. p. 621. N° 9. Var. A. 



Soui-manga brun & blanc, Buf. oif. v. p. 498. 

 Little brown and white Creeper, Ednxi. i. pi. 26. 



'T^HIS, according to Edwards, is not above half the fize of our Description. 



European Creeper : the length three inches and a half. The 

 bill eight lines, and of a dull brown: the upper part of the body 

 is brown, with a changeable glofs of copper : on each fide the 

 head is a ftripe of brown, from the bill to the eye ; and over the 

 eye a kind of white eye-brow : the under parts of the body are 



* Vol.i. p. 69. t. 42. f. 5. the male. 



4X2 white t 



