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Tangier in April that year, which, he says, is the only recorded instance of its occurrence in 
that country. 
To the eastward the Common Creeper occurs as far as Japan. It was not met with in 
Persia by Mr. Blanford and Major St. John; but it inhabits Kashmir, where Dr. Jerdon found it 
common in most of the elevated forests, and it was likewise met with by Mr. Brooks, who 
described the bird from that locality as a distinct species, under the name of Certhia hodgsoni. 
According to Mr. Blyth, Mr. Gould has an example of our European Creeper from the Western 
Himalayas, presented to him by the person who shot it. It occurs in the Amoor country, where 
Dr. L. von Schrenck obtained specimens. Dr. Dybowski (J. f. O. 1868, p. 536) speaks of it as 
rare in Darasun during migration; but Mr. L. Taczanowski, in publishing further information 
obtained from that gentleman, states (J. f. O. 1872, p. 353) that it is resident, though rare, in 
Darasun and Kultuk, and Von Middendorff obtained a specimen on the island of Aehaé, in the 
Sea of Ochotsk. It is found in China, being, according to Pere David, a rare visitant to Peking 
in winter; and Mr. H. Whitely met with it at Hakodadi, in Japan, where, he says (Ibis, 1867, 
p- 196), it is “ common in the woods and plantations.” 
In the Nearctic Region the Creeper is found, according to Professor Baird (N. Am. Birds, 
p- 126), in “the whole of North America, from the Gulf of Mexico to high northern latitudes. 
At different seasonsit may be found in every one of the several States and Territories; yet it is 
never very abundant. ‘The Smithsonian possesses specimens from various parts of the country, 
from Georgia to Fort Steilacoom on the Pacific; but of these none appear to have been secured 
during the period of reproduction. Dr. Heermann found them very common in the more moun- 
tainous districts of California. Dr. Cooper found these birds abundant in the forests of Wash- 
ington Territory, but difficult to detect from the similarity of their colour to that of the bark 
over which they crept. ‘They were apparently constant residents in that Territory. Dr. Suckley, 
who obtained several specimens of this species in the oak groves in the vicinity of Fort Steila- 
coom, states that in their habits the Western birds resemble those of the Atlantic States. 
‘Dr. Woodhouse found the Brown Creeper generally distributed throughout the Indian 
Territory, Texas, New Mexico, and California, and adds that it was especially abundant in the 
San Francisco mountains of New Mexico. 
“Dr. Cooper states that he has met with this form in the winter throughout the higher 
mountains and among the Coast range as far south as Santa Cruz. He found them chiefly 
frequenting the coniferous trees, creeping up and down their trunks and branches, searching for 
insects in their crevices, and so nearly resembling the bark in their general colour, that they can 
be detected only with great difficulty, except when in motion. 
“He adds that their notes are shrill and wiry, and are often heard when the bird is scarcely 
visible without a careful search, their cry appearing to be from a greater distance than the real 
performer. In March Dr. Cooper heard them giving out a faint but sharp-toned song, resembling 
that of a Wren. If Dr. Cooper is correct in his account of the notes, they do not correspond 
with those of our eastern bird. 
‘Dr. Kennerly, in his Report on the birds observed by him near the thirty-fifth parallel, 
states that he found our common Creeper very abundant among the rough-barked cedars in the 
Aztec Mountains..... 
