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C. famiUaris,h.', Enl. 681, 1; Naum. 140. (The European 

 Creeper.) A small bird with whitish plumage, spotted with 

 brown above; rump and tail tinged with red. It builds in the 

 hollows of trees, and climbs with great rapidity, searching for 

 insects and larvae in the cracks of the bark, under mosses, 

 &c.(I) 

 America produces several True Creepers of a large size, called, 



Dendrocolaptes, Herm.(2) Grimpars, Vaill. 



Whose tail is the same, but their beak is much stronger and 

 wider.(3) 



There is even one of them which approaches the Nuthatches 

 in its straight and compressed beak; it might be taken for a 

 Sitta with a worn tail .(4) 



The beak of another, twice as long as the head, is only arcu- 

 ated at the end. (5) 



That of a third is long, slender and as much arcuated as in 

 Melithreptus.(6) 



TiCHODROMA, IHig.(7) 



The tail not worn, although they climb along walls and rocks 

 just as the common Creepers do upon trees, but they cling to them 



(1) Add, C. cinnamomea, Vieill. Ois. Dor. 62, and Galer. 173; Motadlla spini- 

 Cauda, Lath. Syn. II, pi. .52? 



(2) Dendrocolaptes, the Greek n.ame of the Woodpecker. Vieillot has changed 

 it into Dendrocopus, Gal. 175, and applied it to another division. 



(3) The Picucule, Buff. [Gracula cayennerisis, Gni.; Gracscandens, Lath. & Sh.). 

 Enl. 621 and Vieill. Ois. Dor. 76, to which the Dendroc. decumanus, Spix, 87, and 

 falcirostris, 88, are at lea's! closely allied. Add, the Grand Grimpart, Vaill. 42; 

 Dendrec. tenuirostris, Spix, 91, 2; D. hivittatus, 90, 1; D. Wagleri, 90, 2; the 

 Gr. mailU, Vaill. 29, 2; the Grimpart jlambe, Vaill. Prom. 30, or Dend. platyros- 

 iris, Spix, 89? the Ch. enfume, Vaill. 28. 



N.B. The Fluteur of Vaill., Afr. 112, is the genus Dastornis of Swalnson. 

 The Dendrocolaptes Sylviellus, Tem. is his genus Sittasomus and the Certhia 

 maculata of Wils. Ill, xix, 3, his genus Oxtglossus. 



The Dendroprocurvus, Tem. is the genus Xiphorhtnchus, Swains, and the Ta- 

 lapiot, his genus Dendroplex. 



(4) The Talapiot, Buff.; Oriolus picus, Gm. and Lath.; Graculapicoides, Sh., Enl. 

 605, or Dendrocolaptes guttatus, Spix, 91,1. 



(5) The Nasican, Vaill., Prom., etc., 24. 



(6) The Grimpart promerops {Dendrocolaptes procurvus,) Tem. Col. 28 or Den- 

 drocopus fakularius, Vieill. Gal. 175. 



(7) These birds are called Echelettes in some of the French provinces. Vieillot 

 has changed this name into Picchion, and that of Illiger into Petrodroma. 



