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(244) CRERTHIA NIPALENSIS, Nepal T'ree-creeper, is found usually 
over 9,000 feet elevation. It is 54 inches in length; plumage is 
rufous-brown, with whitish spots and streaks, more prominent on 
the head; upper tail coverts ferruginous; quills brown with a light 
wing-bar ; tail light chesnut, feathers pointed; breast white tinged 
brown on the sides; lower tail coverts and flanks ferruginous. 
(245) CeRTHIA pIscoLoR, Sikkim Tree-creeper, is found about 
4,000 feet, occasionally it visits Darjeeling in the rains. In length 
it is 6 inches; colour brownish chesnut, above, spotted with white ; 
lower back (rump) and tail-coverts are ferruginous ; tail feathers, 
pointed, light brown in colour. This bird is more irequently seen 
in the outskirts of Darjeeling. Like most of the True-Creepers it 
is wren-like in habits, but more active than nuthatches when hunt- 
ing for insects on trees. Nipalensis (244) is usually found on high 
altitudes, on the Singalillas, and in Sikkim. It is smaller in size 
than discolor, and distinguished from it, by well defined spots of 
white on the head ; deep ferruginous on lower-back and tail-coverts ; 
under parts white. 
(247) TICHODROMA MURARIA, Red-winged Wall-creeper, which we 
might consider the most interesting and beautiful of Certhine. 
Its bill is very long, slender and a little curved, having a cylindrical 
appearance; wings long (typical of this group), 4th and 5th quills 
the longest; tail soft and short; toes long and thin; hind toe very 
long. Lepchas call this bird Lamdong-pho. It is often met with, 
hunting, precipitous rocky sides of our jhoras (water-courses), for 
insects, a good deal lower than Darjeeling. Some time ago, I saw 
a number, on the “Singtam slip” (land-slip). It was a pretty sight 
to watch these birds, busy ‘at work. Their light cinereous-grey 
bodies, with wings and wing-coverts carmine and red, flashed in the 
sunlight. It is not often, one meets birds spread out in a perpen- 
dicular position to where you are observing them, fluttering their 
dainty little wings in the bright sunshine, like so many big butter- 
flies. This bird is much bigger than the ordinary run of tree- and 
wall-creeper, it is about 7 inches in length. : 
Gi) Sup-Famity SITTIN.AG ( Nuthatches) 
Though closely connected with the creepers, they differ a good 
deal from them. Bill is fairly long, straight, stout and’ compressed 
at the tip; rictal bristles strong; wings pointed Ist primary less 
