CREEPER. 72.5 



Certhia cserulea, Lin. Syfl. i. p. i8j. N° 8. BLUE 



1 , Scop. ann. i. p. 53. N° 61. CR. 



Le Grimpereau bleu de Cayenne, Brif. orn. iii. p. 626. N° 12. pi. 31. f. 4» 

 Variete de Guit-guit noir & bleu, Buf. eif. v. p. 531. 

 Avis Hoitzillin, papilio vocata, &c. Seba, The/, t. 6l. f. 5. 

 Blue Creeper, Edw. i. pi. 21. f. I. 

 Certhia of Guiana, Bancr. Guian. p. 164? 



Lev. Mu/l 



'TPHIS is fomewhat bigger than our Creeper 1 length four Description. 



inches. Bill nine lines long, and black : the head is of a 

 moft elegant blue ; but on each fide there is a ftripe of black like 

 velvet, in which the eye is placed : the chin and throat are marked 

 with black in the fame manner: the reft of the body violet blue : 

 the upper and under wing coverts, quills, and tail, are black : 

 legs yellow : claws black. 



Brijfon mentions each feather of the blueplumage having a brown 

 bafe, then green, with the tip only blue; which circumftance like- 

 wife is obfervable in the laft fpecies. 



Inhabits Cayenne. Seba * fays, that it makes its neft with great Placs^.. 



art ; the outfide is compofed of dry ftalks of grafs, or fuch-like, 

 but within of very downy, foft materials, in the fhape of a retort r 

 which it fufpends from fome weak twig, 'at the end of a branch, 

 of a tree; the opening or mouth downwards, facing the ground ;. 

 the neck is a foot in length, but the real neft is quite at the top, 

 fo that the bird has to climb up this funnel -like opening to get at 

 the neft : thus it is fecure from every harm, neither Monkey, Snake?. 



* Ihif. i. p. ig5». 



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