BLACK AND BLUE CREEPER. 
cular species now under our consideration ; 
which will include all that appears to be 
known on the subject. 
The face of this beautiful bird,'* says 
BuiFon, " is of a brilliant sea-green ; there is 
a bar on the eyes, of velvet black : the rest of 
the head, the throat, and all the under part of 
the body — without exception, according to 
Edwards — the lower part of the. back, and the 
superior coverts of the tail, are of an ultrama- 
rine blue; which is the only colour that ap- 
pears when the feathers are regularly disposed, 
though each has three colours— according to 
the remark of Brisson — brown at the base, 
green in the middle, and blue at the extremity. 
The top of the back, the part of the neck 
contiguous to the back, and the tail, are velvet 
black. What appears of the wings, when 
they are closed, is of the same black; except 
a blue bar, which crosses their coverts ob- 
liquely. The inner side of the quills of the 
wiriFS, and their inferior coverts, are of a fine 
veilow; so that the wings, which seem entirely 
black when at rest, appear variegated with 
black and veilow when displayed or in motion 
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