COMMON CREErER. 



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head dark bro^Mi, the centre of each feather being pale wood 

 brown ; back dark brown, streaked with light greyish brown ; 

 rump reddish tawny ; wing-feathers brown ; wing-coverts 

 tipped with dull Avhite ; pi-iniaries barred with pale brown 

 and greyish black ; tertials with a dark central stripe, and 

 tipped with greyish white ; tail-feathers reddish brown, stiff, 

 pointed, and slightly bent downwards ; chin, throat, breast, 

 and belly, white ; but generally bearing the appearance of 

 being soiled by contact with the exposed surface over which 

 the bird had climbed ; all the plumage thick, soft, and silky ; 

 legs, toes, and claws, light brown. 



The whole length of the bird rather more than five inches. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the wing, two inches and 

 three-eighths : the first feather very short ; the second nearly 

 half an inch shorter than the third ; the third, fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth, nearly equal in length, but the fourth rather the 

 lono^est feather in the wino-. 





