CREEPER. 



709 



Certhia Senegalenfis, Lin. Syft. i. p. 186. N° 14. 



Le Grimpereau violet du Senegal, Brif. orn. iii. p. 660. N° 29. pi. 34. 



f. 2. 

 Le Soui-manga violet a poitrine rouge, Buf. oif. v. p. 500. 



*""j"\HIS is a little bigger than a Wren : length five inches. Bill 

 ten lines in length, and black : the top of the head and the 

 throat are green gold, gloffed with copper : the reft of the body, 

 above and beneath, are of a violet black : fore part of the neck 

 and breaft of a bright red : but this is only when the plumage 

 lays fmooth ; for, on obfervation, each feather of the laft-named 

 parts is black at the bottom, then green gold, and the end only 

 red : the thighs are violet brown : greater wing coverts, quills, 

 and tail, brown : legs and claws blackifh. 

 Inhabits Senegal* 



SENEGAL 

 CR. 



Description, 



Pi.Ae&. 



Certhia chalybea, Lin. Syfi. 1. p. 186. N° 10. 



Le Grimpereau a collier du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Brif. orn. iii, p. 643. 



pi. 32. f. 1. 

 Le Soui-manga a collier, Buf. oif. v. p. 502. 

 Grimpereau du Cap de Bonne Efperance,. PI. enl. 246. f. 3. 

 Purple Indian Creepers, Ediu. 265. 



T ENGTH four inches and a half. Bill ten lines long, and 

 blackifh : the head, neck, throat, and upper parts of the 

 body, are green gold, bronzed with copper ; except the upper tail 

 coverts, which are fimply green gold : the breaft of a beautiful 

 red j this colour is feparated from the green of the neck by a fteel 

 blue band, in fome lights appearing green, and making as it were 



a collar j. 



10. 



COLLARED 



CR. 



Description, 



