PURPLE INDIAN CREEPER. 
X HIS beautiful bird, which was first figur- 
ed by Edwards, under the name of the Pur- 
ple Indian Creeper, appears to be the Cer- 
th ia Chalybea, of the Linnsn system. At 
least, as BufFon says, Brisson, Linn^us, Gme- 
lin, and Latham, agree to refer it to that bird: 
which Brisson calls, the Certhia Torquata of 
the Cape of Good Hope; Latham, the Collar- \ 
cd Creeper; and BufFon, the Collared Soui- 
Manga. But BufFon conceives, that Edwards's 
Purple Indian Creeper is, in fact, the Purple 
Soui-Manga: and his reasoning, on the sub- 
ject, appears worth attending to — " If," says 
fee, in describing the Purple Soui-Manga, 
this bird had been of a varying gold-green 
©n the head, and under the throat; and red, 
instead of green and yellow, on the breast; it 
would have been almost exactly like the Red- 
Breasted Violet Soui-Manga: or, at least, it 
would have been more analogous than the 
Collared Soui-Manga, which has not a shade of 
purple in it's plumage. I cannot conceive," 
be adds, " why Brisson considers the latter, and 
the 
