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The little Brown and White Creeps r 0 
T HIS Bird I have call’d the Creeper , from the Conformity of all its Parts with 
the European Certhia, tho’ it is not above half the Bignefs, nor hath it the 
beautiful Spots and Marks which our Creeper hath, yet the general Colour, Shape of 
the Body and Bill, are the fame ; it is here reprefented of its natural bignefs • the Bill 
is about three-fourths of an Inch long, of a middling Thieknefs at its Bafe, bowed 
downwards, ending in a {harp Point, of a dark brown Colour ; the upper Sides of the 
Head, Neck, Back and Wings, are of a brown inclining to Copper-colour; the whole 
under Side, from Bill to Tail, is White,- it hath a Bar of dark brown, palling from 
the Corners of the Mouth to the Eyes; from the Sides of the upper Mandible of the 
Bill pafies white Lines above the Eyes; on each Side the Covert-feathers, within- 
fide the Wings are White; the greater Quills are of a darker brown than the reft of 
the Body, the Edges of the Feathers being fomething light; the Tail is dark brown 
or black; the outermoft Feathers on each Side, having white Tips ; the Legs, Feet, 
and Claws, brown. 
This Bird preferved in Spirits, was lent me by Dr. Cromwell Mortimer ; he brought 
it from Holland, and was informed it came from the Eajl Indies. I took it out of the 
Spirits in order to draw it. The Glafs-which contain’d it was titled with a Dutch 
Name, which in Englijh fignifies the Honey Thief. I believe this Bird hath not been 
till now either figur’d or defcrib’d. 
I Do not pretend to have any Skill in the Defcription of Infects, not having at all 
ftudy’d them ; nor do I know the Terms by which their Parts are diftinguilhed : 
but they being no Part of my Defign, I have added them only as Decorations to fill up 
fome void Spaces in the Plates where the Birds were fmall; fo. that if my Defcriptions 
are obfcure, I hope the Juftnefs of the Figures, will help to clear them. The Head 
and Body of this Fly is black on the upper Side; the upper Wing moftly black, 
having two redifh Spots near the Body, then a broad, and after it a narrow brown 
Mark; toward the Ends are two Eyes of blue, furrounded with Red, and acrofs each 
End a Mark like Beads of a light brown ; under the greater Eyes of blue, toward the 
lower Wing, is a Spot of blue ; the. lower Wings are blue in the Middle, black at their 
Roots, bordered with Stripes of black and light brown, having in each Wing two 
pretty large Eyes, blue in the Middle, red without that; and black Rings without the 
Red. On the under Side of the Fly the Head is redifh, the Body light brown; the 
upper Wing barred acrofs with Orange-colour and black, having a pretty large Eye 
of black, encompafied by Orange; the under Wing of a dark purplifh Colour, with 
Spots and tranfverfe Lines of black. 
This Fly, with many others, were prefented me by Capt. Ifaac Worth , now in the 
India Company’s Service. It came from China. 
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