CREEPER. 263 



68.— YELLOW-RUMPED CREEPER. 



Certhia Bovbonica, Lid. Orn.u 296. Gm. Lin.'i. 471. 



Soui-manga de Bourbon, Bit/, v. 516. PL enl. 681. 2. (Grimpereau.) 



gris, Ois. dor. ii. pi. 28 ? 



Bourbon Creeper, Shaw's Zool. viii. 259. 

 Yellow-rumped Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 736. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill black ; plumage above greenish 

 brown ; rump yellow, inclining to olive ; under parts mixed grey, 

 tinged with yellow near the tail ; sides rufous ; quills blackish, with 

 pale edges; tail the same ; legs black. 



Inhabits the Isle of Bourbon. 



One in the Ois. dor. is under four inches. Bill brown ; plumage 

 grey, varying in parts to greenish slate-colour ; nearly white on the 

 throat, and inclining to rufous on the breast ; back olive-yellow ; 

 lesser wing coverts and rump yellowish ; tail rather forked. 



Inhabits India, brought into France by the navigators sent in 

 search after La Perouse. 



69.— UNDULATED CREEPER. 



Certhia undulata, Ind. Orn. i. 295. Mus. Carls, ii. t. 34. 

 Undulated Creeper, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 160. Shaw's Zool. viii. 264. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill brown ; plumage above sooty 

 ash-colour, beneath undulated, blackish and white ; quills soot- 

 colour, margined with cinereous olive ; tail beneath cinereous ; legs 

 black. 



Native place unknown. 



