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forming a conspicuous band across the wing when expanded ; 

 feathers of the throat white, edged all round with black, giving 

 the throat a striated appearance ; abdomen and flanks ferru- 

 ginous brown ; under tail-coverts black, irregularly crossed 

 with bars of buff; bill and feet blackish brown. 



Total length 6f inches ; bill | ; wing 4 ; tail 3 ; tarsi 1. 



Sp. 371. CLIMACTERIS LEUCOPHCEA. 



White-throated Tree-Creeper. 



Certhia leucoj)hoea, Lath. Ind. Orn., Supp. p. xxxvi. 



picumnus, 111. Mus. Berol. 



Climacteris picumnus, Teinm. PI. Col. 281. fig. 1. 

 New Holland Nuthatch, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 78. 

 Certhia leucoptera, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 183. 

 The Common Creeper, Lewin, Birds of New Holl., pi. 25. 

 Climacteris leucophoea, Strickl. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. xi. 1843, 

 p. 336. 



Climacteris picumnus, Gould, Birds of Australia, fol., vol. iv. 

 pL 98. 



The range of this species is as widely extended as that of 

 the Climacteris scanderis, being a common bird in New South 

 Wales and the intervening country, as far as South Australia: 

 the precise limits of its habitat northward have not been 

 ascertained ; but it does not form part of the Pauna of Western 

 Australia. 



The whole structure of this species is much more slender 

 and Creeper-like than any other member of its genus, and I 

 observed that this difference of form has a corresponding in- 

 fluence over its habits, for they are more strictly arboreal than 

 those of its congeners ; indeed so much so, that it is ques- 

 tionable whether the bird ever descends to the ground. It 

 also diflers from the C. sca7idens in the character of country 

 and kind of trees it inhabits, being rarely seen on the large 

 Eucalypti of the open forest lands, but resorting to trees border- 



