CREEPER. 



273 



88 —BLUE CREEPER. 



Certhia ccerulea, Ind. Orn. i. 292. Mus. Ad. Fr. ii. p. 22. Gm. Lin. i. 474. Scop. i. 



No. 61. Bris. hi. 626. t.31. 4. Jd. Svo. ii. p. 8. GVn'n. ii. 1. 196. 2. Borowsk. 



ii. 155. 4. Mm*. Car/*, t. 82. 

 Variete de Guit-guit noir et bleu, Bvf.v. 531. 

 Avis Hoitzillin, Papilio vocata, Seba, i. t. 61. 5. the bird. /</. p. 106. pi. 68. f. 2. the 



nest. Klein, 107. 6. & 108. 13. 

 Guit-guit noir et bleu, ou le bicolor, Ois. dor. ii. 74. pi. 44. Id. fern. pi. 45. 

 Guit-guit, Tern. Man. Ed.W. Anal. p. lxxxiv. 

 Certhia of Guiana, Bancr. Guian. p. 164? 

 Blue Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 725. Id. Sup. 128. Edw. pi. 21. I. Shaw's Zool. viii. 



219. pi. 32. 



LENGTH four inches. Bill three-quarters of an inch long, 

 black ; the head most elegant blue ; on each side a stripe of black 

 like velvet, in which the eye is placed ; chin and throat marked with 

 black in the same manner ; the rest of the body violet blue ;* wing 

 coverts, quills, and tail black ; legs yellow, claws black. 



The female is a trifle smaller. Bill seven lines long ; plumage 

 above brown, beneath yellowish ; over the eye a white streak ; throat 

 and breast yellowish grey ; lower belly, and under tail coverts, pale 

 rufous ; legs brown. 



One of these, in the collection of the late Mr. Jones, of Chelsea, 

 was five inches long, and had both the bill and legs red. One from 

 Berbice was called Jauraszini. 



A. — Certhia Surinamensis, Ind. Orn. i. 295. 



^— ^— — — ochrochlora, Gm. Lin. i. 472. 



Jeune Guit-guit noir et bleu, Ois. dor. ii. 76. pi. 46. 



Yellow-cheeked Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 734. Gen. Birds, 60. pi. 3. f. 3. 



Length three inches and three quarters. Bill eight lines ; top of 

 the head green ; edges of the quills and tail feathers the same ; throat 

 dirty yellow ; under parts greenish, streaked with white. 



* The feathers are first brown, then green, and only blue at the tips. 



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