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PASSERINA. ONG 
* C. familiaris, L.; Enl. 681, 13 Naum. 140. (The European 
Creeper.) A small bird with whitish plumage, spotted with 
brown.above; rump and tail tinged with red. It builds in the 
hollows of trees, and climbs with great rapidity, searching for 
insects and larve in the cracks of the bark, under mosses,’ 
&c.(i) 
America produces several True Creepers of a large size, called, 
Drnprocotarres, Herm.(2)—Grimpars, Vaill. 
Whose tail is the same, but their beak is much stronger and 
wider.(3) 
There is even one of them which approaches the Nuthatches 
in its straight and compressed beak; it might be taken for a 
Sitta with a worn tail.(4) 
The beak of another, twice as long as the head, is only arcu- 
ated at the end.(5) 
That of a third is long, sides and as much arcuated as in 
Melithreptus.(6) 
TrcHopRoma, Illig.(7) 
The tail not worn, although they climb along walls and rocks 
just as the common Creepers do upon trees, but they cling to them 
(1) Add, C. cinnamomea, Vieill. Ois. Dor. 62, and Galer. 173;—Motacilla spini- 
cauda, Lath. Syn. II, pl. 52? 
(2) Dendrocolaptes, the Greek name of the Woodpecker. Vieillot has changed 
it into Denprocorvs, Gal. 175, and applied it to another division. 
(3) The Picucule, Buff. (Gracula cayennensis, Gm.; Grac. scandens, Lath. & Sh. )- 
. Enl. 621 and Vieill. Ois. Dor. 76, to which the Dendroc. decumanus, Spix, 87, and 
. falcirostris, 88, are at least dlosely 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. platyros- 
tris, 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 Srrrasomus and the Certhia 
maculata of Wils. III, xix, 3, his genus Oxyexossus. 
The Dendroprocurvus, Tem. is the genus X1rnornyNenvs, Swains. and the Ta- 
 lapiot, his genus Denpror.ex. 
(4) The Talapiot, Buff.; Oriolus picus, Gm. and Lath.; Gracula picoides, Sh., Enl. 
605, or Dendrocolaptes guttatus, Spix, 91,1. 
(5) The Nasican, Vaill., Prom., etc., 24. 
(6) The Grimpart promerops (Dendrocolaptes procurvus,) Tem. Col. 28 or Den- 
drocopus falcularius, Vieill. Gal. 175. 
(7) These birds are called Echeleites in some of the French provinces. Vieillot 
has changed this name into Picchion, and that of Iliger into Perroproma. 
