7.Q2 



CREEPER.. 



as a fly on a glafs window. Its food is principally, if not wholly, 

 infers, which it finds in the chinks, and among the mofs, of trees. 

 It builds its neft in fome hole of a tree, and lays generally five eggs, 

 very rarely more than feven * j thefe are afh-coloured, marked at 

 the end with fpots and ftreaks of a deeper colour ; and the fhell is 

 obferyed to be pretty hard. 



It remains in the places which it frequents during the winter^ 

 and builds its neft early in the fpring. 



■X. Le grand Grimpereau, Brif.orn. iii. p. 607. — Buf. oif.v. p. 486. 



"Vaiu A. XJran-Specht, Fri/ch. t. 39. 



DESCRIPTION. 



CR. 



Description. 



'T'HIS bird differs merely in fize from the other, being bigger : 

 thofe who have ieen it, aver that the manners are alike, ex- 

 cept in one circumftance j for Klein f fays, that it is fo tame as to 

 fuffer him to catch it with the hand as it was running up a tree. 



2. Certhia viridis, Seep. aim, i. p. 52. N° 60. 



GREEN 



'"PHIS, fays Scopoli, is the fize of the laft nearly : a blue ftripe 



runs from the bafe of the bill, and defcends down the neck on 



each fide : a rufous fpot on the throat : the plumage on the upper 



parts of the body is greenifh ; on the under pale yellow, mixed 



* Albin, and other authors, fay as far as twenty ; but Buffbn denies this from 

 his own obfervations j how it would be if the eggs were taken away, as mif- 

 chievous boys fometimes ferve the innocent Wren, I know not ; perhaps it might 

 in that cafe continue to lay on till its flock was exhaufted, 



f Ord. eii. p. 107. 



.2 -with 



