CREEPER. 717 



mifhap is furely not peculiar to this fpecies merely j and I make 

 no doubt, that not only this, but the young brood of every fmall 

 bird, may be liable to the fame accident, whenever this infecT: may 

 be ftrong enough to gain the fuperiority ; befides, the manifeft 

 difference in length, between five inches and a half and eight 

 inches, muff, to every impartial judge, prevent them being ranked 

 together as the fame fpecies* 



Certhiaafra, Lin.SyJi.'x. p. 186. N° ir. 18. 



Le Soui-manga vert a gorge rouge, Buf. oif. v. p. 514. -ArKICAN 



Red-breafted green Creeper, Ed<w. glean, pi. 347. 



/ "T" V HIS is between four and five inches long. The bill is one Description. 



inch, and dulky : head,, neck, back, and wing coverts, fhin- 

 ing green, glofled with burniihed gold and copper : acrofs the 

 breaft a bar of fine red : the upper tail coverts fine blue : greater 

 wing feathers, and tail, dark brown; lighter on the edges : infides 

 cf the wings, and under fide of the tail, lighter than above: 

 belly, thighs, and under tail coverts, white : legs black. 



This is met with at the Cafe of Good Hope, where it is faid to Place. 



fing as well as a Nightingale, and has a fweeter voice. 



18. 

 4-Var. A. 



"IN my collection is a bird which I fhould fuppofe to be of a Description. 



different fex from the above, as it anfwers pretty well in all 



things except the belly, which is afh-coloured inftead of white, 



and is probably the very bird which Edwards has defcribed ; with 



this addition, that in my fpecimen there is a tuft of fine yellow 



feathers under each wing, and the tongue bifid at the end. It 



molt 



