SENEGAL CREEPER. 



distinct species. It is about four inches and a 

 half Jong, with a very crooked bill, somewhat 

 stouter than in most of the small Creepers, and is 

 of a deep violet-purple colour, slightly glossed on 

 some parts with green: the wings dusky brown, 

 and the tail black : across the breast is a double 

 bar, the uppermost of which is violet, glossed with 

 green ; the lowermost deep red ; and on each side 

 the body, beneath the shoulders, hangs a tuft of 

 yellow plumes, a circumstance common to many , 

 birds of this genus : the bill and legs are black. 

 Native of India. The specimen figured by Ed- 

 wards appears to have wanted the red bar across 

 the breast. Edwards also figures another specimen, 

 which differs in no other respect than in being a 

 Tery trifle smaller, and in having the bill some- 

 what less stout: this he supposes the female; but 

 it is more probably a young male. This species 

 may be readily distinguished from the Collared 

 Creeper by its purple colour, as well as by the 

 comparatively indistinct appearance of the red pec- 

 toral or abdominal bar, which in Edwards's spe- 

 cimen seems very obscure, and is not even mention- 

 ed in his description. 



