CREEPER. 



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for half its length into four fegments, like threads : at the bafe of 

 the under mandible, juft behind the gape, is a kind of membrane 

 like a fmall wattle, of a yellowifh colour, and about one-fixth of 

 an inch in diameter ;■ this is furrounded by a patch of yellow fea- 

 thers, which extends under the eye : the irides are cinereous : the 

 plumage is brownilh olive green ; the middle of the back darkeft : 

 the belly verging to afh-colour: the chin and throat are of a 

 rufty orange-colour : the breaft ferruginous : legs blue black : 

 claws black. 



One of thefe had no orange-colour under the throat; and all 

 the under parts of the body were of an olive yellow : the tail was 

 even at the end, and the edges of it and the quills olive yellow. 



Inhabits Tongo 'Tabu, or Amfierdam IJle, in the South Seas. 



Lev. Muf. 



CIZE of our Creeper. Bill the length of the head, curved from 

 the middle to the point, but in a fmall degree; the bafe 

 whitifh, the reft black : the tongue is long, extenfile, and ciliated 

 for half its length : between the bill and eye a ftreak of black, 

 which juft encircles- the eyelids all round : irides of a reddilh 

 cheftnut : head, neck, and breaft, crimfon : down the middle of 

 the back a ftripe of the fame colour to the rump : the reft of the 

 body black : wings and tail black; the laft even at the end; the 

 wings reach about to the middle of it when clofed : the legs are 

 lead-coloured : claws black. 



Inhabits the cultivated parts of the ifland oFTanna, and is there 

 called Kuyameta. It lives by fucking the neSfar of flowers, and is 

 not uncommon. 



Yellow- 



Place. 



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Pl. xxxiil 



Fig. 2. 

 Description. 



Place. 



