234 CREEPER. 



22.— LEONA CREEPER. 



Leona Creeper, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 164. Nat. Misc. pi. 369. 



LENGTH four inches. Bill three-eighths of an inch long, 

 hooked, black; head, neck, back, and wing coverts fine gilded green; 

 chin and throat black ; across the breast a gilded purple band ; from 

 thence yellowish white, or pale yellow; vent inclining to blue ; under 

 the wings, on the sides of the breast, a tuft of yellow feathers ; quills 

 and tail dusky, the feathers of the latter edged with gilded blue 

 green ; legs black. 



The female is dusky brown above, beneath brownish white, or 

 very pale brown ; bill and legs as in the other. 



Inhabits Sierra Leona. The male in my collection, the female 

 in that of Mr. H. Brogden. 



23.— BROWN AND WHITE CREEPER. 



Soui-manga brun et blanc, Ois. dor. ii. IIS. pi. 81. 

 Certhia Zeylonica, Gm. Lin. i. 482. 23. )3. 

 Brown and white Creeper, Shaw's Zool. viii. 204. 

 Ceylonese Creeper, Gen. Syn.Yu 713. A. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill more than half an inch, 

 bent, base white, tip black ; top of the head and sides, taking in the 

 eyes, green ; chin, neck, breast, back, and wings brown ; lesser wing 

 coverts green ; rump reddish purple ; lower part of the breast, and 

 belly white ; tail black ; legs brown. 



