OF THE BIRDS MENTIONED 125 
round. Plumage: Head, blue; wings, blue edged 
with white; tail and legs, blue (hence name); breast 
and under part of body, greenish-yellow. Length : 
44 to 5 inches. Flight: Jerky and short. Habits: 
Never at rest, assuming all sorts of positions on and 
around twigs and boughs. Note: A feeble “ tweet, 
tweet.’ Food: Insects, etc., found in crevices of bark, 
also fruits, fond of fat and cheese, and will eat flesh at 
times. Nature: Audacious, even attacking larger 
birds. Male and female: Much alike. Nest: In March 
or April. Well constructed, deep. Sztuated in holes 
and hollows, and sometimes very odd places (as spouts 
etc.), adapting the nest according to the size of the 
cavity chosen, and filling up the surroundings with nest 
material. Made of grass, soft hair and moss, lined with 
feathers (chiefly), hair and wool. Second nests: Prob- 
ably not. The parents and young keep together till 
autumn. Eggs: Pinky-white, spotted with reddish- 
brown at larger end. Seven to ten. 
3) CREEPER 
(Pages 36-38) 
Certhia familiaris (one of the Tenwirostres —slender- 
beaked birds—as the humming bird, nut-hatches, etc.). 
Syn.: Tree Creep, Tree Climber. Creeps, aided by its 
