WALL CREEPER. 189 



Common Creeper, which it nearly resembles in 

 size, but is of a greenish colour above, and pale 

 yellow beneath with a mixture of green: ou each 

 side the neck is a blue streak, descending from the 

 base of the bill, and on the throat a rufous spot : 

 the quill-feathers are brown with green edges, and 

 the tail greenish brown. k Tills remarkable variety, 

 if such it be, and not rather a distinct species, is a 

 native of the Dutchy of Camiola in Austria. 



WALL CREEPER. 



Certhia muraria. C. cinerea, alls caudaque nigris, tectricibus roseis, 

 rcmigibus roseo margmatis. 



Cinereous Creeper, with black wings and tail ; the coverts rose- 

 coloured ; the quills edged with rose-colour. 



Certhia muraria. C. cinera, macula alarvmfulva. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Picus mu rar ins. Gesn. Aldr. Will. fyc. 



Grimpereau de imuaille. Buf. vis. PI. Enl. 3/2. Viett. Certh. 

 pL 73. 



Wall Creeper. Lath. syn. Edw. pi. 36*1. 



THIS very elegant species, which is principally 

 found in the warmer parts of Europe, is consider- 

 ably larger than the Common Creeper, measuring 

 about six inches arid three quarters in total length: 

 its colour is deep blueish grey, somewhat darker 

 beneath: the wing-coverts and middle quill-feathers 

 black, the smallest or those nearest the body edged 

 with white : the tail short and black, with the two 

 exterior feathers on each side tipped with white ; 



