The Oologist. 



VOL. XIX. NO. 3. ALBION, N. Y.. FEBRUARY, 1902. 



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Nesting of the Brown Creeper. 



The Brown Creeper [Certhia famil- 

 iaris americana) is not a rare bird in 

 this locality, yet can hardly be called 

 common. Though this bird is not con- 

 sidered regularly migratory it moves 



southward in the fall, and is rare or 

 absent in this locality from the 1st of 

 November to the 15th of March. 



This migratory movemeat may be a 

 partial one like that of the Crow, the 

 bird wintering a little further south. I 

 saw one in a yard in the city of Walt- 

 ham, Mass., the 4th of Dec, '95, where 

 it made a short stop as it was promptly 

 driven out by the ever-present English 

 Sparrow. It is a rather solitary bird, 

 usually staying in the old woods where 

 it may be seen ascending the trunks of 

 the large trees usually in a spiral 

 course, all the while busily examining 

 the crevices in the bark for insects or 

 their larvae. Its ascent is rapid, con- 

 sidering the extent of its search, and 

 is accomplished by upward hops as 

 a Woodpecker ascends, but the motion 

 is so smooth and easy that the bird 

 seems to almost glide up the trunk. 

 When the bird has ascended as high as 

 it wishes, it invariably takes wing, to 

 alight at the base of the same or an ad- 

 joining tree for another ascent, never 

 hanging head downwards as the Nut- 

 hatches do. 



It is frequently found in company with 

 Chickadees, Nuthatches and Downy 

 Woodpeckers, but it is probably a sim- 

 ilarity of food rather than social aspir- 

 atioi'S on the part of the Creeper that 

 is the cause of their being found to- 

 gether. Usually not mure than two 

 birds are seen at one time, but occa- 

 sionally in the fall the parent birds and 

 their brood are seen together. Tlie 

 Creeper is little noted for its musical 

 ability, for, though it has a sweet song 

 it is so rarely uttered that but fnw have 

 ever heard it. I have heard the song 

 but once. It was one of those morn- 

 ings, bright with the promises of coming 



