216 CREEPER. 



A. — Certhia cinerea, Ind. Orn. i. 289. Ois. dor. ii. p. 60. pi. 38. 

 Cinereous Creeper, Gen. Syn.W. 721. Id. Sup. ii. 160. 



Size of the other. Bill and tongue the same ; head, neck, upper 

 part of the back, and breast brownish ash-colour ; on each side of 

 the jaw a yellowish streak ; lower part of the back, wing coverts, 

 and rump glossy green ; quills brown ; belly pale yellow ; down the 

 middle of the breast and belly a mixture of glossy green ; vent 

 white ; tail black, the two middle feathers two inches and a quarter 

 longer than the rest, the others a little cuneiform; legs black. 



This is the plumage of the young male, towards the end of the 

 rainy season, when it has gained the long tailed feathers, though not 

 so much extended beyond the others as in the adult. I have seen 

 young birds a little differing from this, though not so materially as 

 to merit a particular description. 



B.— Trochilus Capensis, Ind. Om. i. 303. 6. Lin. Mantis. 1771. 525. 

 Great Humming-Bird, Shaw's Zool. viii. 282. 283. 

 Ekeberg's Humming-Bird, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 170. 



Size of a Swallow. General colour green-gold ; quills black ; 

 wing coverts, nearest to them, margined with glossy blue ; tail even 

 at the end, except the two middle feathers, which are three times 

 the length of the others, colour of all of them black, margined at 

 the base with glossy green ; vent black, marked with shining blue 

 spots. 



This is said to inhabit the Cape of Good Hope, for which we have 

 the authority of M. Ekeberg. It has, however, never fallen to our 

 lot to meet with any of the Humming-Bird Genus, which came from 

 that place ; and as it seems from the description to correspond with 

 the Famous Creeper, we have ventured to place it as belonging to 

 that bird. 



