CERTHIA FAMILIARIS. 
(COMMON CREEPER.) 
Certhia familiaris, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 184, ‘“‘ Europe” (1766). 
Certhia fusca, Barton, Fragm. Nat. Hist. Pennsylv. p. 11, “ N. America” (1799). 
Certhia scandulaca, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 432, “ Russia and Siberia” (1811). 
Certhius major, Frisch, Vog. Teutschl. fol. B, taf. 39, “Germany ” (1817). 
Certhius minor, Frisch. loc. cit. “ Germany” (1817). 
Certhia macrodactyla, C. L. Brehm, Vég. Deutsch]. p. 208, “Central Germany” (1831). 
Certhia septentrionalis, C. L. Brehm, tom. cit. p. 210, ‘“‘ North Germany ” (1831). 
Certhia brachydactyla, C. L. Brehm, tom. cit. p. 210, ‘Saalthal, Germany” (1831). 
Certhia megarhynchos, C. L. Brehm, tom. cit. p. 211, ‘‘ Western Germany ” (1831). 
Certhia natterert, Bp. Comp. List, p. 11, “ Dalmatia” (1838). 
Certhia americana, Bp. tom. cit. p. 11, “‘ Western and Northern America” (1838). 
Certhia cost, Bailly, Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. de Savoie, January, “Savoy ” (1852). 
““Certhia mexicana, Gloger,” Reichenb. Handb. i. p. 265, “ Mexico” (1853). 
Certhia brachyrhynchus, L. Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 274. 
Certhia paradoxa, L. Brehm, ut supra. 
Motacilla scolopacina, Strom, Trondh. Selsk. Skr. (1770), fide Collett, Norg. Fugl. p. 16, 
“ Norway ” (1868). 
“Certhia rujfidorsalis, Br.’ Giebel, Thes. Orn. i. pp. 615, 618 (1872). 
Certhia hodgsoni, Brooks, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 73, ‘ Kashmir.” 
Creeper, Tree-creeper, Tree-speeler, Brown Woodpecker, English; Snaigear, Meanglan, 
Streapach, Gaelic; Grimpereau familier, French; Trepadevia, Atrepa, Portuguese ; 
Trepatroncos, Aranero, Spanish; Rampichino, Italian; Baumléufer, German; het Boom- 
kruipertje, Dutch; Trepikker, Trelober, Danish; Trédkrypare, Swedish; Trekryber, 
Norwegian; Puukiipid, Finnish; Pishchuha Sverchok, Russian. 
Figure notabiles. 
D’Aubenton, Pl. Enl. 631. fig.1; Werner, Atlas, Anisodactyles, pl. 2; Frisch, Vog. 'Teutschl. 
taf. 39; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 25. figs. 19, 20; Naumann, Vog. Deutshl. taf. 140. figs. 1-4; 
Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pl. ix. fig. 2; Kjerb. Orn. Dan. taf. x.; Gould, B. of Eur, pl. 237; 
id. B. of G. Brit. ii. pl. 64; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pl. 63; Roux, Orn. Proy. pl. 239; 
Bettoni, Ucc. Lomb. tay. 88; Baird, B. of N. Am. pl. 83. fig. 2. 
Ad. capite et collo supra saturaté fuscis albido striatis: dorso et scapularibus ferrugineo-fuscis albido macu- 
latis: uropygio ferrugineo: remigibus nigro-fuscis ochrascente brunneo vel albido fasciatis, omnibus, 
quatuor extimis exceptis, albido apicatis: rectricibus ferrugineo-brunneis: supra oculum stria albida, 
facie laterali fusco albido striat&: corpore subtus pulcherrimé albo, :crisso et hypochondriis pallidé 
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