26a CREEPER. Class 11. 



XT. Very (lender BILL, very much incurvated, 



CREEPER. Twelve feathers in the TAIL. 



91. Creep- Le petit Grimpereau. Belon Le Grimpereau. Brijfon III. 

 E R. a-v. ^j^. 603. 



Certhia. Ge/ner a-v. 2^1, Cat. Carol, s.pp.'^j. 



AUr. a^. I. 424. Certhia familiaris. Lin, fyji, 



Wil. orn. 144. 184. 



Raiifyn. a^. 47. Krypare. Faun. Suec.fp. 106. 



The Oxeye Creeper. Charl- Treee-Pikke v. Lie-Helten. 



ton ex. 93. Br. p. 12. Scopoli, No. 59. 



Picchio piccolo. Zinan. 75. Grau-Specht. Frifchy I. 39. 



BaumlaufFerl. Kram. 337. 

 Br. Zool. 82. plate K. 



Pescrip. / I ^HE creeper weighs only five drams: and 

 X next to the crefled wren is the left of the 

 Britijh birds : the manner it has of ruffling its fea- 

 thers, and their length give it a much larger ap- 

 pearance than is real. The length of this bird is 

 five inches and a half: the breadth feven and a half: 

 the bill is hooked like a fickle : the irides hazel : 

 the legs flender: the toes and claws wt-cy long, 

 to enable it to creep up and down the bodies of 

 trees in fearch of infeds, which are its food : ic 

 breeds in hollow trees ; and lays fometimes twenty 

 eggs : the head and upper part of the neck are brown, 

 ftreaked with black : the rump is tawny : the co- 

 verts of the wings are variegated with brown and 

 black : the quil- feathers duiky, tipt with white, 



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