£19 



CERULEAN CREEPER. 



Certhia caemlea. C. saturate ccerulea, fascia oculari gula remt- 



gibus caudaque nigris. 

 Deep-blue Creeper^ with black eye-stripe, throat, wing-feathers 



and tail. 



Certhia caerulea, yascfa oculari gula remigibus rectricibusque nigris, 



Lin. Si/sL Nat, 

 Blue Creeper. Edw.pl. 21. 

 Variete de Guit-guit noir et bleu. Biif, ois. 

 Le Guit-guit noir et blf u. Viell, Certh. pL 44, 45. 46. 

 Blue Creeper. Lath, syn. 



This is so nearly allied to the preceding, that 

 Monsr. Montbeillard, in BufFon's Ornithology, 

 has considered it as a variety of that bird. It 

 differs however not only in being of somewhat 

 smaller size, but in the disposition and cast of its 

 colours, and is undoubtedly *a very distinct species. 

 Its length is near four inches, and its colour a fine 

 bright violet-blue, the head somewhat lighter than 

 the other parts, but without the least appearance 

 of the beautiful pea-green stripe so conspicuous 

 on that of the preceding species : from the bill to 

 the eye, on each side the head, is a velvet-black 

 stripe, and a moderately broad streak of the same 

 colour passes along the throat : the wings and tail 

 are black ; the latter rather short in proportion to 

 the bird : the under coverts of the wings are pale 

 yellow, and the insides of the quill-feathers of the 

 same colour : the bill is black, and the legs red or 

 orange-coloured, but sometimes black. The female. 



