202 CERTHIA FAMILIARIS. 



CERTHIA FAMILIARIS, Linn^us. 

 TREE-CREEPER. 



§ 1096. One. — Cambridgeshire. From T. Ravvlinson, 1844. 



Bird caught on its eggs. 



[The purveyor of this egg was well known, by sight at least, to most residents 

 in Cambridge in those days and for some years after. Though I never had the 

 good fortune to make his acquaintance, I recollect him distinctly, for the old 

 red coat that he used to wear made him a conspicuous figure. Mr. Wolley 

 thus wrote of him in 1847 (Zoologist, p. 1822) . ..." he is ' Tom the pieman ' 

 of all the 'feasts ' many miles round Cambridge: — an old soldier, a reformed 

 drunkard, a teetotaller, an affectionate father, a simple-hearted fellow, a 

 collector of insects, eggs, fossils, and everything else, and a prot^g^ of ' Per- 

 fesser Sedgwick.' His personal appearance I should spoil by description, — 

 I hked old Tom ! "] 



S 1097. Two.—\vi or prior to 1844. 

 ^ 1098. Owe.— 1853 [?]. 



\S 1099. 0;?^.— Elveden, 1846.] 



\S 1100. 0^/e.— Elveden, 1847.] 



\S 1101. Two.— Elveden, 1848.] 



[§ 1102. 7^o//r.— Elveden, 1851.] 



\S 1103. 0/?e.— Whittlesford, Cambs. From Mr. Thurnall, 

 1851.] 



\S 1104. 0;?^.- Elveden, 13 May, 1852.] 



[§ 1105. Two.— Elveden, 1 June, 1853.] 



\S 1106. r7/;o.— Elveden, 16 May, 1854. "A. N."] 



