CREEPER. 279 



C. — Another, rather smaller; plumage in general green; sides 

 of the head, chin, and throat, as far as the breast, dashed with green 

 streaks ; quills and tail darker. Both these last, probably young 

 females, were in the Leverian Museum. 



D. — One in the collection of General Davies, had the chin and 

 throat rufous cream-colour, pale round the eye ; sides of the neck, 

 breast, and belly streaked green and white. This may likely be a 

 voung male. 



E. — A further Variety in Mr. Bullock's Museum had the under 

 mandible pale, plumage above fine green and glossy, beneath plain 

 pale green ; chin and throat pale yellow, somewhat rufous ; quills 

 and tail dusky. 



92— GARTERED CREEPER. 



Certhia armillata, Ind. Orn. i. 298. Mus. Carls, ii. t. 36. 



Guit-guit, Tern. Man. Ed. 2. Anal, lxxxiv. 



Gartered Creeper, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. p. 162. Shaw's Zool. viii. 217. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill black; plumage above emerald 

 green, beneath greenish white ; vent yellowish ; wings black ; 

 shoulders glossy blue ; beneath the wings yellow, the feathers mar- 

 gined outwardly and tipped with black ; quills black, the inner 

 margins yellow ; rump speckled with sapphire blue ; lower parts of 

 the thighs surrounded with the same at the joint, as a garter. 



Inhabits Surinam. Varies in having here and there a feather more 

 or less blue ; in some a band of black from the bill passes through 

 the eye, and close to it a line of yellow ; this is supposed to be 

 a young bird, not complete in the plumage; probably of the 

 Cayenne species. 



