■CREEPER. 



723 



<Certhia gutturalis, Lin. Syjl.'u p„ 186. N* 15. 24. 



Le Grimpereau noiraftre du Brefil, Brif. cm. iii. p, 659. N* 28. pi. 23. f. 3. GREEN-FACED 



L'Oifeau brun a bee de Grimpereau, Buf. oif v. p. 525. 



Grimpereau brun du Brefil, PI. enlutn. 578. f. 3. 



ALMOST the fize of a Linnet : length five inches four lines. Description. 



Bill an inch long, and black : the forehead and throat is of an 

 elegant green gold : head, upper part of the neck, and reft of the 

 body, blackifh-brown : the fore part of the neck bright red ; but 

 the feathers are not red their whole length ; they are black brown 

 at the bafe, then a changeable violet green, and red only at the tips : 

 the leffer wing coverts fine violet ; the middle ones brown like the 

 back ; and the greater, and quills, rufous brown : the tail is of the 

 feme colour : legs black. 



This, Brijfon fays, came from Brajil, Place. 



Le Grimpereau pourpre de Virginie, Brif. orn. iii. p. 654. N* 26- 



L'Oifeau pourpre a bee de Grimpereau, Buf. oif. v. p. 526. 



Avis Virginiana phsenicea, de Atototl di&a, Stba, Tbef. i. pi. 72. f. 7. 



25. 



PURPLE 



CR. 



[ARGER than the laft : length four inches and a half. Bill 

 twelve lines- and a half: the whole body is clothed with 

 purple feathers, not excepting the wings and tail, which are of the 

 fame colour. 



Inhabits Virginia. S-eba fays that it fings well. 



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