CREEPER. 
COMMON CREEPER. 
TREE CLIMBER. 
TREE CREEPER. FAMILIAR 
CREEPER. 
Y GREPIANOG, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH. 
II. 
PLATE LII.—FIG. 
Certhia familiaris, Pennant. Monrtacu. 
NIDIFICATION commences in March, and a second | : 
brood is very frequently reared the same year, but not, i 
it seems to be thought, in the same nest. a 3 
The nest is composed of grass, straws, fibres of roots, 5 
and twigs, bits of bark, spiders’ webs, and the cocoons 7 = 
of chrysalides, lined with the latter and feathers. It g 
is placed either in a hole or some crevice of the bark — 
of a tree, the willow, as most affording such as it eC 
requires, being preferred, or even between two stems, eee 
and has been found in the interstice afforded by two. me 
palings: a hole previously tenanted by a Titmouse or 
aes other small bird is sometimes resorted to. a 
5 The eggs, eight or nine at the former brood, laid — 
a | in April, and four or five at the second, are white, 
a with a few red spots all over, or only at the thicker 
ee , end. ‘They are hatched in thirteen days, and both birds 
sit on them by turns. | 
