222 CREEPER. 



This said to be a male, and the following the female. These 

 seem to be much allied to, if not a Variety of the Red-breasted 

 Creeper. 



Length four inches and a half. Bill half an inch, scarcely bent; 

 crown, nape, back, and wing coverts dark green ; all beneath fine 

 yellow ; from the gape a purplish, irregular streak, three quarters of 

 an inch long, passing down on each side of the neck ; greater wing 

 coverts and quills chocolate-brown ; tail the same, but short, scarcely 

 three quarters of an inch, and even at the end. 



Inhabits India. 



In one of these, from Sumatra, the bill was brown, the under 

 mandible paler; crown of the head silky, purplish brown; chin and 

 throat fine scarlet ; lower part of the neck behind scarlet also, but 

 much darker; beneath each eye a fine blue streak; belly dusky 

 brown ; wings and tail much the same ; legs dusky. 



In another specimen the crown was deep blue black ; nape brown; 

 head, neck, back, and breast scarlet ; beneath from the breast pale 

 yellowish ; wings pale brown ; tail brown, the two middle feathers 

 half as long again as the others ; bill and legs dusky. 



Inhabits India : named Phulchuyia. 



10— VIOLET CREEPER. 



Certhia Madagascarieusis, Ind. Orn. i. 282. 



Soui-manga, Gm. Lin. i. 471. Buf. v. 494. Ois. dor. ii. 39. pi. 18. Id. a 



jeune Age, 41. pi. 19. 

 Certhia Madagascarieusis violacea, Bris. iii. 638. t. 32. f. 2. 3. Id. 8vo. ii. p. 11. 

 Violet Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 705. Shaw's Zool. viii. 208. 



SIZE of a Wren ; length four inches or more. Bill three quarters 

 of an inch, black ; tongue somewhat longer than the bill, and bifid 

 at the end ; in the male the head and neck, upper part of the back, 



