VVA.LL CREEPER. 
differs from the Male, only in having the throat 
Avhite. '* The bill," continues Edwards, " is 
long and slender; a little bo'^ved downwards ; 
and of a black or dusky colour. The nostrils 
are near the basis of the bill. The top of the 
head is of a brownish ash-colour. ' The upper 
side of the neck, the back, and rump, are of 
a fine blueish ash-colour. The belly, thighs, 
imd covert-feathers under the tail, are of the 
Ihme ash-colour, but a shade darker. The 
tail is composed of twelve feathers of equal 
length, of a blackish colour: except their tips, 
which are wdiltish in ' the outer feathers, and 
ash -coloured in the middlemost feathers. The 
throat, and under side of tiie neck, are wnite. 
The wings are best seen when thcv are spread. 
ThiC lesser covert- feathers arc of a pleasant 
red colour, like that of red wine seen in a 
glass ; the inner coverts are also red, but tend- 
ing to dusky; and the row of outer covert- 
feathers next above the quills arc dusky, bor- 
dered with red, so that thev appear wholly 
red when the wings arc closed. I counted 
twenty quills in one of tiie wings : the outer- 
most shorter, by half, than the next following 
it ; the fiftli quill the longest. The quills have 
their 
