CREEPER. 247 



40.— COLLARED CREEPER. 



Certhia chalybea, Ind. Orn. i. 284. Lin. i. 1S6. Gm. Lira i. 475. Bris. iii. 643. 



t. 32. f. 1. Id. 8vo. ii. p. 13. 

 Soui-manga a Collier, Ois. dor. ii. 59. pi. 13. Buf. v. 502. PL enl. 246. f. 3. 

 Soui-manga, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxxxiv. 

 Collared Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 709. 'Shaw's Zool. viii. 196. pi. 28. Nat. Misc. pi. 381. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill ten lines long, and 

 blackish ; head, neck, throat, and upper parts of the body, green 

 gold, bronzed with copper ; tail coverts green gold ; breast beau- 

 tiful red ; this colour separated from the green by a steel blue band, 

 in some lights appearing green, and making a kind of collar ; the 

 rest of the under parts grey, with a little yellowish mixture on the 

 lower part of the breast and sides ; quills grey brown ; tail glossy 

 black ; the ten middle feathers margined with green gold, the outer 

 with grey, and all of them grey at the tips ; legs black. 



In the bird figured by M. Audibert are two yellow tufts under 

 the wings. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope, found in great numbers, with 

 others of the Genus, about the Paarl mountain : has a clear, melo- 

 dious note, and sings delightfully in a cage, though it is kept in 

 confinement with difficulty, existing entirely on sugar and water,* 

 but its principal food is collected from the various kinds of Protea.f 



A. — Soui-manga a ceinture bleue, Ois. dor. ii. 28. pi. 10. 

 Certhia erythrogastra, Nat. Misc. pi. 837. 



Length rather more than five inches. Bill one inch and half, 

 head, neck, breast, and back, green gold ; rump bright blue ; across 



* Barrow Trav. 62. f Chiefly the Protea mellifera. 



