284 BIRDS. 



Creeper). A small bird with whitish plumage, spotted with brown 

 above ; rump and tail tinged with red. It makes its nest in the hol- 

 lows of trees, and climbs with great rapidity, searching for insects 

 and larvas in the cracks of the bark, under mosses, &c.* 

 America produces several True Creepers of a large size, called, 



Dendrocolaptes-|-, /ferTK.— Grimpars, Vaill. 

 Whose tail is the same, but their bill is much stronger and widerlj;. 



There is even one of them which approaches the Nuthatches in 

 its straight and compressed bill ; it might be taken for a Sitta with a 

 worn tail§. 



The bill of another, twice as long as the head, is only arcuated at 

 the endl|." 



That of a third is long, slender, and as much arcuated as in Me- 

 lithreptus ^. 



TiCHODROMA **, Illig. 

 In the WaU Creepers the tail is not worn, although they climb along 

 walls and rocks just as the common Creepers do upon trees; but they 

 cling to them with their great claws. The bill is triangular and depressed 

 at base, very long and very slender. 



One species only is known, which inhabits the south of Europe, 

 Certhia muraria, L. ; Enl. 372; Naum. 141. It is a pretty bird 

 of a light ash colour, the coverts and edges of a part of the wing- 

 quills bright red. The throat of the male is blackf f . 



Nectarinia, Ulig. 



Tail not worn, nor are these birds climbers, but their moderately long, 

 arcuated, pointed and compressed bill, resembles that of the Creepers. 

 They are all foreign to Europe. 



• Add, C. cinnamomea, Vieill. Ois. Dor. 62, andGaler. 173; — Motacilla spinicauda, 

 Lath. Syn. II, pi. 52? 



f Dendrocnlaptes, the Greek name of the Woodpecker. Vieillot has changed it 

 into Dendrocopus, Gal. 175, and applied it to another division. 



X The Picucule, Buff. {Gracula cayennensis, Gm.; Grac. scandens, Lath, and Sh.). 

 Enl. 621, and Vieill. Ois. Dor. 76, to which the Dendroc. decumanus, Spix, 87, and 

 falcirostris, 88, are at least closely allied. Add, the Grand Grimpart, Vaill. 42; — 

 Dendrec. ienuirostris, Spix, 91, 2;— Z). bivittatus, 90, \;—D. Wagleri, 90, 2;— the Gr. 

 maille, Vaill. 29, 2; — the Grimpart flambe, Vaill. Prom. 30, or Dend. platyroslris, 

 Sjnx, 89;— the Gr. enfume, Vaill. 28. 



N. B. The Fhiteiir of Vaill. Afr. 112, is the genus Dasyornis of Swainson. The 

 Dendrocolapfes Sylviellus, Tem. is his genus Sittasomus and the Certhia maculata of 

 Wils. Ill, xix, 3, his genus Oxyglossus. 



The Dendrucolaptes procurvus, Tem., is the genus Xiphorhynchus, Swains., and 

 the Talapiot, his genus Dendroplex. 



§ The Talapiot, Buff.; Oriolus picus, Gm. and Lath.; Gracula picoides, Sh., Enl. 

 605, or Dendrocolapfes guttatiis, Spix, 91, 1. 



il The Nasican, Vaill., Prom., etc., 24. 



^ The Grimpart promerops {Dendrocolaptes procurvus), Tem. Col. 28, or Dendroco- 

 pus falcularius, Vieill. Gal. 175, 



** These birds are called Echelettes in some of the French provinces. Vieillot 

 has changed this name into Picchion, and that of Illiger into Petrodroma. 



ft Certh.fusca, Lath. Vieill. 65, appears to me to belong to this subgenus. 



