230 CREEPER. 



and tail changeable violet; breast, belly, and thighs yellow; legs 

 brown. 



Inhabits Malacca, known also in Java, by the name of Sui- 

 ganti. 



A. — Length four inches. Head, neck, and all above violet 

 purple ; cheeks greenish brown ; chin and throat reddish ; wing 

 coverts, scapulars, and rump glossy violet purple ; quills brown, 

 edged with dusky olive ; tail black, with glossy purple edges ; be- 

 neath from the breast yellow. — In the collection of Gen. Davies. 



B. — In the same collection was one five inches long. Bill five- 

 eighths of an inch, moderately bent, black; plumage above purple, 

 in some lights violet ; beginning of the back and the crown brighter ; 

 on the rump purplish ; cheeks brownish, beneath this glossy purple ; 

 chin reddish purple, from thence all beneath yellow ; wing coverts 

 purple, the rest of the wing red brown ; quills brown ; tail dusky 

 black, edged with green ; legs pale brown. 



C. — Also a further Variety, with the plumage above pale brown ; 

 throat as far as the breast, pale cinereous grey brown ; from thence 

 all beneath pale yellow, nearly white at the vent ; quills and tail 

 dusky black ; legs black. 



This was given to General Davies, as the female of the Yellow- 

 bellied Creeper. 



