240 CREEPER. 



B. — African Creeper, Ind. Orn.'u 287. y. Gen. Syn.'u. 718. 



This varies in having the fore parts of the neck, from chin to 

 breast, glossy purplish blue ; and the bar on the breast deep red, 

 inclining to purple. This was in the collection of Miss Blomefield. 



C. — Soui-manga a plumes soyeuses, Ois.dpr. ii. 119. pi. 82. 

 Splendid Creeper, Share's Zool. viii. 191. pi. 26. 



Length five inches and a half. Bill one inch and a quarter, 

 black; head, throat, and breast green, bronzed with copper, appear- 

 ing purple in some lights ; lesser wing coverts, and back fine gilded 

 green ; tail coverts the same, very long, reaching almost to the end 

 of the tail ; across the breast a narrow band of vermilion, not glossy; 

 belly, and vent dusky black ; greater wing coverts, and quills brown, 

 tinged with green ; tail the same, edged with green ; legs black. 



Inhabits Africa. 



29— RUFOUS-BREASTED CREEPER. 



LENGTH about four inches. Bill dark ; crown of the head, 

 neck behind, back, and wing coverts fine polished green ; sides of 

 the head, behind the eyes, and on the jaw, fine splendid copper; 

 chin, neck before, and breast leddish cinnamon-colour, inclining to 

 rufous ; from thence to the vent, pale dull yellow ; quills dusky ; 

 under wing coverts yellowish white ; tail wanting. 



Inhabits Sierra Leona.— Mr. Comyns. 



