CREEPER. 721 



The above circumftances we are furnifhed with by M. le Vicomtt Place. 



Querohent, who has made proper obfervations thereon, having 

 kept thefe birds at the Cape of Good Hope, of which they are na- 

 tives, for fome weeks. 



22. 



CINEREOUS 

 CR. 



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ENGTH nine inches. Bill one inch and a half long, fhaped Description. 

 as in the former : tongue as long as the bill : head, neck, 

 upper part of the back, and breaft, brownifh afh-colour : on each 

 fide of the lower jaw a ycllowifh ftreak : lower part of the back, 

 and rump, glofly green : wing coverts the fame : quills brown : 

 belly pale yellow : down the middle of the breaft and belly a mix- 

 ture of glofly green : vent white : tail black ; the two middle 

 feathers two inches and a quarter longer than the reft, the others 

 cuneiform : legs black. 



From the Cape of Good Hope. This feems, in fome things, to Placi. 



coincide with the female of the laft mentioned. 



Trochilus coccineus, Lin. Syjl. ed. 6. p. 



Le Grimpereau rouge du Mexique, Brif.orn. iii. p. 651. N° 24. RED 



L'Oifeau rouge a bee de Grimpereau, Buf.oif.v. p. 522. CR. 



Avicula Mexicana, feu Hoitzillin, Seba^ vol. i. p. 70. N° 6. 



IT is bigger than our Creeper: and is four inches and a half Description. 



nearly in length. The bill is ten lines long, and of a light 

 yellow : the upper part of the head is of a light but bright fhin- 

 ing red : the throat, and fore part of the neck, green : the whole 

 of the upper parts of the body, and the under tail coverts, are 



4 Z deep 



