232 CREEPER. 



Whether this is the female or young of the Grey Creeper is not 

 certain ; but from the general colours being much the same, though 

 perhaps not so well defined, and the outer tail feathers being tipped 

 with white, it may prove to be the female. 



20— VIOLET-TAILED CREEPER. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill three quarters of an 

 inch, curved, black ; head, neck, back, and lesser wing coverts 

 glossy green ; above the breast a purple bar, very glossy ; the rest 

 of the under parts pale yellow buff; vent dusky white ; on each 

 side of the breast, at the bend of the wing, a pale yellow tuft ; 

 greater wing coverts and quills dusky brown ; the rump, and upper 

 tail coverts, fine glossy, steely purple ; tail blue, margin of the 

 feathersglossy ; the wing coverts are first dusky, then blue, with 

 the ends glossy green ; feathers of the rump black, the ends steely 

 purple ; legs long, dusky. 



Supposed to inhabit Abyssinia. — In the collection of Mr. Salt. 



21— EASTERN CREEPER. 



LENGTH nearly four inches and a half. Bill three quarters 

 of an inch, bent, black ; plumage in general black, with different 

 reflections of purple and green ; quills, beneath the wing, and tail 

 dusky ; under each wing a large tuft of gold yellow feathers. 



The female olive-green above, yellow beneath ; lower belly, 

 thighs, and vent white ; wings and tail dusky. 



