CREEPER. 



7" 



Certhia Capenfis, Lin. Syji. i. p. 185. N« 4. 



Le Grimpereau du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Brif. orn. iii. p. 618. pi. 31. 

 f. 1. 



11. 



CAPE 

 CR. 



'"TpHIS equals a Wren in fize : length four inches two lines. Description. 



"*• Bill three quarters of an inch, and blackifh : the head, 

 neck, and body, are grey brown ; paleft beneath : greater wing 

 coverts brown, margined with grey brown : tail blackifh j. the 

 outer edges grey brown, but the outer feather fringed with 

 whitifh on the outer edge : legs black. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. Briffon thinks it the female of Place. 



fome one of this fpecies, fince the colours are very little vivid : 

 perhaps, then, it may be the other fex of the laft, as it comes from 

 the fame place. 



Certhia Philippina, Lin. Syft. i. p. 187. N° 2 7. 



Le Grimpereau des Philippines, Brif. orn. iii. p. 613. N° 4. pi. 30. f. 2. 



— PL enl. 576. 1. 

 Grimpereau fecond de 1'Ifle de Lucon, Son. Voy. pi. 30. B ? 



12. 



PHILIPPINE 



CR. 



DRISSON defcribes it as being lefs than our Creeper : length Description. 



four inches and three quarters. Bill an inch in length, 

 and black : tongue tubular, and forked : all the upper parts are 

 grey brown, with a greenifh caft ; thofe beneath of a yellowifh 

 white : quills brown, with paler edges : the two middle tail fea- 

 thers black, with a green gold glofs j the others blackifh, tipped 

 more or lefs with white, as they are placed more outwardly : legs, 

 and claws black. 



5 Linnaus 



