7*6 CREEPER. 



- M. Adanfon fays, that the female, of which he has feen many at 



-Senegal, is exactly like the male j and that the one defcribed by 



* Brijfon as a female, is only a young bird not yet come to perfection. 



Linnaus defcribes this very differently, though I am confident 



that he means the fame bird. He fays, the bill is twice as long as 



the head : the head and back fhining blue : bread blue black, 



gloffy, with a fire- coloured or golden ferruginous band on the 



breaft : belly brown: quills black: tail the fame, and even at 



the ends. 



Peaces. Inhabits Ceylon, and Madagafcar -, and is called Angala-dian. 



Buffon tells us, that it makes its neft of the down of plants, in 

 form of a cup, like that of a Chaffinch, the female laying generally 

 five or fix eggs ■, and that it is fometimes chafed by a Spider as large 

 as itfelf, and very voracious, which feizes on the whole brood, and 

 fucks the blood of the young birds. 



17. Le Soui-manga des toutes couleurs, Buf. cif. v. p. 513. 



GREE CR GOLD Av ' S Ce y lonica omnicolor, Seba, The/, pi. 69. f. 5. 



Falcinellus omnicolor Zeylanicus, Klein, ord. a<v. p. 107. N° 8. 



Description. HSPHE fynonyms of Seba and Klein are added, both by Linnaeus 

 and Brijfon, to the former j but it is plain that Seba could 

 not mean the fame bird : for his defcription fays, it is near eight 

 inches in length : the bill an inch and a half long : and the tail 

 two inches and a quarter : the whole plumage green, with a 

 fhade of all manner of colours, among which that of gold bears 

 the greater! fhare. Seba, indeed, adds, that the young of this 

 falls a prey to the great Spider above mentioned *; but this 



Merian mentions this of the young of Humming-birds in general. 



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