278 CREEPER. 



91.— CAYENNE CREEPER. 



Certhia Cayana, Ind. Orn. i. 293. Lin. i. 18G. Gm. Lin. i. 475. Bris. iii. 636. t. 



33. 2. Id. 8vo. ii. p. 11. 

 Certhia corpore supino viridi, &c. N. Com. Petr. ii. 430. t. 14? 

 Guit-guit vert tachete, Buf.v. 538. 

 Grimpereau verd tachete de Cayenne, PI. enl. 6S2. 2. 

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

 Cayenne Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 728. Id. Sup. p. 128. Shaw's Zool. viii. 256. 



LENGTH four inches and a quarter, Bill three quarters of an 

 inch, black, slightly curved at the end ; plumage above palish 

 green ; scapulars, wing and tail coverts, the same ; throat rufous ; 

 between the nostrils and eye a very small spot of rufous ; along the 

 lower jaw, on each side, a narrow band of blue ; cheeks white, the 

 feathers margined on both sides with green ; and within with grey 

 brown ; tail a trifle forked, the two middle feathers wholly green ; 

 the others blackish, edged with green ; legs grey. 



The female has the colours more dull, and the green on the upper 

 parts paler. This sex has neither the rufous spot on the throat, nor 

 between the nostrils and eye ; and the whole plumage scarcely tinged 

 with blue. 



A. — Buflbn mentions one, having two green lines diverging from 

 the upper mandible. Such an one I have also seen from Cayenne, 

 where the others inhabit. 



B. — Length five inches. General colour of plumage palish 

 green ; paler beneath, streaked with white on the chin, throat and 

 breast; over the eye a pale streak, and beneath it a black one; 

 quills and tail dark green, the feathers with pale edges. 



