260 CREEPER. 



63.— BAND-BREASTED CREEPER. 



Soui-rnanga de Sierra Leon, Quinticolor, Ois. dor. ii. 116. pi. 79. 

 Band-breasted Creeper, Nat. Misc. v. 10. Id. Zool. viii. 247. 



LENGTH three inches and three quarters. Bill eight lines, 

 dusky ; forehead, chin, and breast, violet ; throat, and rump, blue ; 

 the rest of the head, upper part of the neck, back, and tail, green ; 

 wings brown ; belly rufous. 



Inhabits Sierra Leona. 



In the Oiseaux (lores ii. p. 28. pi. 26, 27, are two young birds 

 of the Creeper Genus. The first four inches long. Bill seven lines; 

 head, neck, and back, light brown ; rump, and lesser wing coverts, 

 green-gold ; throat and breast grey, but not pure, being here and 

 there mixed with brownish, and also with a mixture of blue on the 

 breast and rump ; side tail feathers edged with greyish white. 



The other is four inches and three quarters long, and the bill 

 longer; plumage in general brown, beneath buff; wing coverts 

 greenish, mixed ; lower part of the back and rump green, with some 

 mixture of green on the breast. 



These are supposed to be young, immature birds, but it is by no 

 means certain to what species they belong. 



64.— AERIAL CREEPER. 



SIZE small ; length three inches and three quarters. Bill half 

 an inch long ; tongue the same, and bifid at the end ; head, neck, 

 and cheeks, olive-grey, inclining most to olive on the wing coverts ; 



