286 CREEPER. 



100— CHICLI CREEPER 



Le Chicli, Voy. d'Azarain. No. 236, 237. 



LENGTH six inches; extent of wing seven. Bill strait, slender, 

 a trifle bent at the point, dusky, pale beneath ; irides rnfous grey ; 

 forehead brown; top of the head, the tail, and bend of the wing, 

 fine red, the two latter more dull ; upper part of the body rufous 

 brown ; throat black, the feathers tipped with white ; sides of the 

 head and neck before whitish brown, breast and belly whitish ; sides 

 litrht fulvous. 



101— PARAGUAN CREEPER. 



Le Pic-Grimpereau a Aisles et Queue rouges, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 246. 



LENGTH five inches ; breadth six inches and a half. Bill 

 much compressed, and bent the whole length, black ; beneath white; 

 plumage in general above glossy brown ; from the nostrils a whitish 

 streak, passing over the eye; sides of the head streaked whitish, and 

 pale brown ; lesser wing coverts, above and beneath, and tail fine red ; 

 greater coverts only edged with red, the rest of the coverts dusky 

 brown ; quills brown, edged with reddish ; all the under parts mixed 

 brown and whitish, and glossy; tail pointed at the end, somewhat 

 concave, and cuneiform, the outer feathers sixteen lines shorter than 

 the two middle ; the outer toe joined to the middle at the base. 



Inhabits Paraguay. — One found in a deep Wood on the trunk of 

 a tree, in the act of feeeding on a worm. 



