CREEPER. 219 



7.— PHILIPPINE CREEPER. 



Certhia Philippina, Ind. Orn. i. 213. Lin.'u 187. Gm. Lin.\. 482. Bris. iii. 613. 



t. 30. f. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. p. 4. 

 Grimpereau second de Lu£on, Son. Voy. pi. 30. B. 



des Philippines, P/. enl. 576. f. 1. 



Philippine Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 711. 



LARGER than our Creeper; length four inches and three quar- 

 ters. Bill black ; tongue tubular, and forked ; plumage above 

 greenish grey brown, beneath yellowish white ; quills brown, with 

 paler edges ; the two middle feathers of the tail black, with a gilded 

 green gloss, the others blackish, more or less tipped with white, as 

 they are more outward; legs black. 



According to Linnaeus, it has two very long feathers in the tail, 

 but the figure referred to by him in Brisson is without them. 



Inhabits the Philippine Islands. — Sonnerat says, particularly 

 Luconia. The above may be supposed to be a female, and it seems 

 not unlike that of the Red-breasted, or following species. 



8— RED-BREASTED CREEPER. 



Certhia Sperata, Ind. Orn. i. 283. Lin. i. 186. Gm. Lin; i. 477. 



Philippensis purpurea, Bris. iii. 655. t. 31. f. 2. 3. Id. Svo. ii. 16. Gerin. ii. 



t. 100. m. & fem. 

 Soui-manga marron pourpre a poitrine rouge, Buf. v. 497. 

 Grimpereau des Philippines, PI. enl. 246. 



Soui-manga a Ceinture marron, Ois. dor. ii. 37. pi. 16. Id. fem. p. 38. pi. 17. 

 Avis Nochtototl, Seba i. 65. t. 42. 5 ? 

 Red-breasted Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 70. 6. 



LENGTH four inches. Bill eight lines long and black, the base 

 whitish ; tongue longer than the bill, and forked at the end ; head, 

 throat, and neck before glossy violet ; behind the neck, back, and 



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