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Certhia farniliaris, Lin. Syft. 1. p. 184. N° i.~—MuI!er, p. 13.— Seep, anm 1. 



i. p. 5Z. N° 5 j. *■ COMMON^ 



Le Grimpereau, Brif. ortr. iii. p. 603. N° \,—Bxf. oif. V. p. 481'. 



t. 21. f. I.— PL enl. 681, f. I. 

 Ifpida cauda rigida, Kram. el. p, 337. N° 2» 

 Certhia, Raii Syn. p. 47. A. 5. 

 The Creeper, Will orn. p. 744. t. 23. 

 Tree Creeper, Albin iii t. Z^-. 

 Creeper, Br. Zool. N° 91. t. 39 — Amer. Zool. N° 

 .Br. Ma/. Lev. Muf. 



'"p-HIS bird is Icarce bigger than the crefted Wren : it weighs Ditcmp-Tiawt 



"*■ five drams : and is in length five inches and a half. The 

 bill is hooked like a fickle ; the upper mandible brown, the lower 

 whitilh : the irides hazel : the head, and upper part of the neck, 

 are brown, ftreaked with black: rump tawny : the wing coverts' 

 variegated with brown and black : quills dufky, tipped with- 

 white, and edged and barred with tawny marks : the bread and 

 belly are of a filvery white : the tail is very long, and confifts of 

 twelve ftifF feathers * j they are of a tawny hue,, and the interior 

 ends of each (lope off" to a point : legs and claws grey. 



This bird is found in moft parts of Europe, though it is believed Place- 



no where fo common as in England, It may be thought more fcarce 

 than it really is, by the lefs attentive obferver; for, fuppofing it' 

 on the body or branch of any tree, the moment it obferves any 

 one, it gets to the oppofite fide, and fo on, let a perfon walk round 

 the tree ever fo often : the facility of its running on the bark of a 

 tree, in all directions, is wonderful, doing this with as much eafe 



» Willugbly, and fome others, give it but ten, 



as* 



