258 CREEPER. 



Inhabits Africa; said to be from Malemba : probably new, and 

 the largest of all the African Species. 



59 —RED-GILT CREEPER. 



Soui-manga rouge dore, Ois. dor. ii. 

 Red-brown Creeper, Shaw's Zool. viii. 222. 



LENGTH three inches and a half. Bill eight lines long, and 

 black; plumage in general gilded red ; lesser wing coverts glossy 

 violet; quills and tail brown ; legs black. 



Native place unknown. 



CO.— MACASSAR CREEPER. 



Certhia Macassariensis, Ind. Orn. i. 300. Gm. Lin. i. 480. 



Polytums Indicus, Bris. iii. 675. Id. 8vo. ii. 23. 



Avis Tsioei Indica orientalis, Seba, i. 100. t. 03. 3. Klein, 107. 7. 



Soui-manga de Macassar, Ois. dor. ii. p. 66. 



Macassar Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 741. Shaw's Zool. viii. 267. 



SIZE of a Wren ; length four inches and a half. Bill eleven 

 lines, whitish ; plumage on the upper parts green gold, glossed with 

 copper; beneath blackish brown ; tail green gold ; legs black. 



Inhabits the Islands of Bally and Macassar. 



