F emale.
21.
FAMOUS
CR.
D escription.
F emale.
The female is of a greenifh-brown above: beneath yeliowifh
mixed with brown : the under tail coverts white, fprinkled with
brown and blue: in other particulars it nearly refembles the
male.
Certhia famofa, Lin. Sjft. l. p. 187. N° 20.
Le Grimpereau a longue queue du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Brif. orn. iii.
p. 647. N° 22. pi. 34. f. l.
Le grand Soui-manga vert a longue queue, Buf. oif V. p. 52.1.
Grimpereau a longue queue du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Pi. enl. 83. f. I.
g I Z E of a Linnet: length nine inches. Bill fifteen lines and a
half, and black: tongue the length o f the b ill: the whole
plumage is green-gold, with a glofs of copper: between the bill
and eyes is a dripe of black like velvet * : on each fide, under the
fhoulders, is a fine yellow fpot, which does not appear unlefs the
wing is lifted up: greater wing coverts and quills blackifh,
edged with green : tail of a bright black; the two middle feathers
are two inches and a half longer than the others, and are edged
with gold and copper green on both fides; the fide feathers are
green only on the outer edges : legs and claws are black.
The female has the head and upper part of the body of a
greenith brown, with a mixture of fine green: the rump green:
the quills and tail black brown : beneath the body is yeliowifh,
with a mixture of green feathers on the breaft : the tail is long,
as in the male, but the two middle feathers exceed the fide feathers
by only two inches and fome lines ; thefe long feathers are
likewife very narrow, as it were only a thread.
* In the Planches eluminees this is omitted.
The
The above circumdances we are furnilhed with by M. le Vicomte-
§>uerohent, who has made proper obfervations thereon, having
kept thefe birds at the Cape of Good Hope, of which they are natives,
for fome weeks.
T ENGTH nine inches. Bill one inch and a half long, lhaped
as in the former: tongue as long as the b ill: head, neck,
upper part of the back, and bread, brownifh afh-colour : on each
fide of the lower jaw a yeliowifh ftreak : lower part of the back,
and rump, glofiy green : wing coverts the fame : quills brown :
belly pale yellow : down the middle of the bread and belly a mixture
of glofiy green: vent white : tail black; the two middle
feathers two inches and a quarter longer than the red, the others
cuneiform: legs black.
From the Cape of Good Hope. This feems, in fome things, to
coincide with ihe female of the lad mentioned.
Trochilus coccineus, Lin. Syß. cd. 6. p.
JLe Grimpereau rouge du Mexique, Brif. vrn. iii. p. 651. N° 24.
L ’Oifeau rouge ä bee de Grimpereau, Buf. oif. v. p. 522.
Avicula Mexicana, feu Hoitzillin, Bcba, vol, i. p. 70. N° 6.
p m bigger than our Creeper : and is four inches and a half
nearly in length. The bill is ten lines long, and of a light
yellow: the upper part of the head is of a light but bright lhin-
ing red : the throat, and fore part of the neck, green : the whole
•of the upper parts of the body, and the -under tail coverts, are
4 Z deep
Place.
22.
+- CINEREOUS
CR.
D e s c r ip t i o n.
Pl a c e .
28-
RED
CR.
D escrjption.