BLACK AND BLUE CREEPEi. 
family, which he calls — Tomineo Capensis 
Major Capite Luteo.'* 
Buffon makes this bird his first species of a 
new genus, which he calls the American 
Guit-Guits. " It is," he says, " an Ameri- 
can name, applied to one or two of this tribe, 
containing the Creepers of the New Continent. 
I shall use it as a generical appellation. I have 
already noticed some diiterences that obtain 
between them and the Humming Birds: I 
may add, that they neither fly in the same 
manner, nor sip the nectar of flowers. Yet, 
the Creoles at Cayenne frequently confound 
them ; and we should, therefore, be aware of 
this circumstance, in reading the relations of 
travellers. I am assured, that the Goit-Guits 
of Cayenne never climb on trees — that they 
live in flocks, not only of their own kind, but 
also with other birds ; such as the little Ta^ 
nagres. Nuthatches, Picucullas, &c.— and, that 
they feed not only on insects, but on frails, 
and even on buds." 
To this account of the genus, we must add 
'BufFon's history and description of the parti- 
cular 
