CREEPER. 259 



61 .—STRAIT-BILLED CREEPER. 



Soui-manga a. bee droit, Ois. dor. ii. 112. pi. 75. 

 Strait-billed Creeper, Shaw's Zool. viii. 246. 



LENGTH three inches and a half. Bill half an inch long, 

 rather strait, dusky black ; plumage above glossy green ; throat 

 olive-yellow ; across the breast dusky ; chin, and under parts of the 

 body whitish ; beneath the wings a yellow tuft ; quills and tail deep 

 brown. 



Native place unknown. 



62— INDIAN CREEPER. 



Certhia Indica, Ind. Orn. i. 301. Gm. Lin. i. 480. 



Polytmus caeruleus Indicus, Bris.ux. 682. Id. 8vo. ii. p. 25. 



Falcinellus Colubri, orientalis, Seba, ii. 20. t. 19. 2. Klein, 108. 12. 



Soui-manga des Indes, Ois. dor. ii. p. 66. 



Indian Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 741. Shaw's Zool. viii. 268. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill fifteen lines, black ; 

 plumage wholly fine glossy blue, except the throat and fore part of 

 the neck, which are whitish ; wings and tail as the rest of the body ; 

 legs black. 



Inhabits the East Indies. 



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