262 CREEPER. 



parts pale olive-green, the under very pale ash-colour ; quills and 

 tail brown, edged with green ; legs black. 

 Inhabits Africa. 



A. — Length five inches and a half. Bill one inch, black ; head, 

 neck, and breast, glossy green gold, with a slight purple hue in some 

 lights ; back, wings, and tail, olive-green ; belly and vent pale ash- 

 colour; legs black. 



Inhabits Africa. — Mr. Bullock. It probably dingers in sex from 

 the Ash-bellied Species. 



B. — Soui-manga vert et gris, Ois. dor. ii. 47. pi. 25. 



Length four inches. Bill ten lines, black ; plumage above pale 

 green to beneath the eye, but on the back inclining to brown ; undei 

 parts greyish white ; on the head a tinge of gilded blue. 



Inhabits Africa, and is probably a Variety, or young bird. 



67— INDIGO CREEPER. 



Certhia Parietum, Ind. Orn. i. 298. 



Rossignol de Muraille des Indes, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 20S. 



Indigo Creeper, Gen. Syn. Sup. 130. 



SIZE of the Fig-eater. Bill black ; irides rufous yellow ; top 

 of the head, neck behind, back, wings, and tail, pale indigo blue ; 

 over the eye a white streak, and a second of black, passing under 

 the eye to the hindhead; throat white; breast, belly, and vent rufous; 

 legs rufous yellow. 



Inhabits India. 



