PURPLE INDIAN CREEPER. 
the under-side of the tail, are of a dark asb-co- 
our. The breast is tinged witb green; and 
has, on eacb side, a spot of yellow, or gold-co- 
loured, featbers, wbich fall partly over tbe 
vv'ings wben they are closed. The legs and 
feet are black. 
The Hen bird, wlilchis smaller, differs in 
nothing, from the Cock, as to the plumage: 
xcept that the belly, thighs, and covert-fe'a- 
ers, under the tail, are of the same blueish 
purple as the upper side ; and, that it wants 
he green spot across the middle of the breast. 
*' These birds," adds Edwards, " are of a 
jarticular class : differing from tr^e Hiimming- 
5ird, in having bills very much bowed down; 
nd, in having their legs much longer. But, 
ley have the sam.e sort of tongue as the 
lum.ming-Bird ; dividing, at i:'s' ends, into 
veral filaments: so that, I suppose, they sub- 
stin the same mianncr; taking up the lioney, 
moisture, out of flowers, by means of their 
ng tongues, which are so well contrived for 
at purpose. The Hinr.ming-Bird, properly 
called, is found only in America; but this 
tribe 
