218 CREEPER. 



Inhabits Senega], very common at Malemba, and sucks the honey 

 from flowers, in the manner of the Humming-Bird ; common also 

 in the South of Africa; but not beyond the Great River, in theCanre 

 Country ; said not to breed in the latter. M. Levaillant could not 

 find the nest. In one of these birds I observed the throat and fore 

 neck to look black in some lights, but found, on close inspection, that 

 it arose from the feathers being rumpled, for in this, and many other 

 most brilliant birds, the gilded tinge is only at the very tips of the 

 feathers, being dusky or black the rest of the length. 



6 ._SNUFF-COLOURED CREEPER, 



Certhia tabacina, Ind. Orn. i. 289. 



Soui-manga Couleur de Tabac, Ois. dor. ii. 67. 



Snuff-coloured Creeper, Gen. Syn. Sup. 129. Shaw's Zool. viii. 215. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill one inch and a quarter, 

 not much bent, black-brown ; head, neck, and back deep cinnamon 

 or snuff-colour ; beneath the body green; under wing coverts yellow ; 

 tail in general of a moderate length, and even at the end, except the 

 two middle feathers, which exceed the others by two inches and a 

 half; legs black. 



A fine specimen was in the collection of the late Mr. Boddam, 

 but without any history annexed. 



In my possession is a drawing of a bird between four or five inches 

 in length, above wholly deep cinnamon-colour, quills darkest; from 

 the breast all beneath pale green ; with this is also a nest, of a cylin- 

 drical shape, deeper than broad, composed of downy materials ; this, 

 I have scarce a doubt, is the female and nest of the above described. 



Supposed to inhabit Africa. 



