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 larve in the cracks of the bark, under mosses, &c.* 
America produces several True Creepers of a large size, called, 
DenprocoLartes |, Herm.—Grimpars, Vaill. 
Whose tail is the same, but their bill is much stronger and widerf. 
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 end|].. 
That of a third is long, slender, and as much arcuated as in Me- 
lithreptus J]. 
Ticuoproma **, Iilig. 
In the Wall 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 black++. 
Nectarinia, JIlig. 
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, and Galer. 173;—Motacilla spinicauda, 
Lath. Syn. IJ, pl. 52? 
+ Dendrocolaptes, the Greek name of the Woodpecker. Vieillot has changed it 
into DenpRocopus, Gal. 175, and applied it to another division. 
{ 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. tenuirostris, Spix, 91, 2;—D. bivittatus, 90, 1;—D. Wagleri, 90, 2;—the Gr. 
maillé, Vaill. 29, 2;—the Grimpart flambé, Vaill. Prom. 30, or Dend. platyrostris, 
Spix, 89;—the Gr. enfumé, Vaill. 28. 
N.B. The Fluteur of Vaill. Afr. 112, is the genus Dasyornis of Swainson. The 
Dendrocolaptes Sylviellus, Tem. is his genus Sirrasomus and the Certhia maculata of 
Wils. III, xix, 3, his genus OxyeLossus. 
The Dendrocolaptes procurvus, Tem., is the genus X1IPHORHYNCHUS, Swains., and 
the Talapiot, his genus DENDROPLEX. 
§ The Talapiot, Buff.; Oriolus picus, Gm. and Lath.; Gracula picoides, Sh., Enl. 
605, or Dendrocolaptes guttatus, Spix, 91, 1. 
| 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 Iliger into PerRoDROMA. 
tt Certh. fusca, Lath. Vieill. 65, appears to me to belong to this subgenus. 
