236 CREEPER. 



The supposed female wholly dingy black above, including the 

 eyes, beneath dusky white, with some obscure dusky markings on 

 the sides of the neck and breast ; bill and legs black. 



The two former birds said to have come from Ceylon and Mada- 

 gascar, and called Angala-dian ; the two latter from Manilla ; are 

 reported to make a curious nest, like that of a Chaffinch, laying five 

 or six eggs ; this bird is sometimes chaced by a spider as large as 

 itself, and very voracious, which seizes the whole brood, and sucks 

 the blood of the young birds.* 



25— SENEGAL CREEPER. 



Certhia Senegalensi*, Lid. Orn. i. 284. Lin. i. 180. Gm. Lin. i. 477. Bris. iii. 660. 



t. 34. 2. Id. 8vo.\\. p. 18. Gerin.W. t. 199. f. 2. Musi Lev. t. 6. 

 Soui-rnanga violet a poitrine rouge, Bnf. v. 500. Ois. dor. ii. 25. pi. 8. 

 Senegal Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 709. Shaw's Zool. viii. 205. pi. 29. M. & F. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill ten lines long, and black ; top of 

 the head and throat green-gold, glossed with copper; the rest of 

 the body, above and beneath, violet black ; fore part of the neck 

 and breast bright red ; but only appearing so, when the plumage 

 lies smooth ; for each feather is black at the bottom, then green gold, 

 with the end red ; thighs violet brown ; greater wing coverts, quills, 

 and tail, brown ;f legs blackish. 



Inhabits Senegal. In the Ois. threes the plumage seems to be 

 deep brown ; crown and throat green ; breast varied with green and 

 blue, violet and red. 



* Merian mentions this of the young of the Humming Birds in general. See Merian 

 Surin. pi. 18. 



t In a Specimen at Mr. Francillon's the Tail is very pale brown. 



