CREEPER. 287 



102— GILDED CREEPER. 



Le Pic-Grimpereau dore, Voy. d'Azara] iii. No. 247. 



LENGTH six inches ; extent nine. Bill dusky, somewhat com- 

 pressed, and bent at the point ; irides brown ; plumage above gilded 

 red, crown dotted black ; over the eye to the hindhead a gilded fillet ; 

 under the eye another dusky band, parallel to the former, beneath 

 the ear; sides of the head, throat, neck before, wings, and tail, pale 

 gold colour ; tail somewhat cuneiform, the feathers pointed at the 

 ends; the outer feathers five lines shorter than the middle; legs yel- 

 lowish green, all the toes separated. 



Inhabits Paraguay. — Two specimens of this bird were seen in 

 the great woods, leaping from branch to branch in search of worms, 

 but did not climb. — It comes near to the Creeper Genus, but the toes 

 being separate, it does not strictly belong to it. 



