CREEPER. 283 



of the wings, and rump, fine yellow ; lower belly, thighs, and 

 under tail coverts, pale yellow ; under wing coverts white ; quills 

 black, the greater ones white at the base ; tail black, all the feathers, 

 except the two middle, with white tips ; legs blackish. 



Inhabits Jamaica, and St. Domingo. In one from the last place 

 I observed, that only the two outer feathers had white tips. 



A. — Certhia Martinicana, Bris. iii. 611. t. 34. 5. Id. 8vo. ii. p. 4. Borowsk. Nat.W. 



155. 

 Luscinia, seu Philomela e fusco et luteo varia, Sloane, 307. 37. t. 255. 3. Klein, 74. 10. 

 Guit-guit sucrier, Ois. dor. ii. 81. pi. 51. 

 Bahama Creeper, Arct. Zool. ii. No. 175. 

 Yellow-bellied Creeper, Gen. Si/n. ii. 737. Edw. pi. 362. 2. female. 



Size of the former. Bill dusky ; over the eye a yellow stripe ; 

 upper parts brownish ash colour, except the tip of the tail, and 

 bottom of the greater quills, which are white ; under part of the 

 body yellow, changing to white at the vent ; upper tail coverts 

 yellowish ; legs dusky. 



B.— Certhia Bahamensis, Lin. i. 187. 18. /3. Bris. iii. 620. Id. Svo. ii. p. 6. 

 Luscinia pectore flavo, Klein, 74. 9. 

 Bahama Titmouse, Cat. Car. i. pi. 59. 

 — — Creeper, Gen. Syn. Sup. 739. 



Length four inches and three quarters. Bill one inch, black ; 

 plumage above brown, beneath j^ellow ; ridge of the wing yellow ; 

 threat paler; the lower part of the belly, vent, and under tail coverts, 

 brown ; over the eye to the hindhead a white stripe ; wings and tail 

 brown, the feathers edged with white ; legs brown. 



Inhabits the Bahama Islands.— One of these in the collection of 

 Mr. Mc. Leay, from Berbice, was named Inqua Itikin. 



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