TICHODROMA MURARIA. 
(WALL-CREEPER.) 
Certhia muraria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 184 (1766). 
Tichodroma muraria, Mlig. Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Ay. p. 210 (1811). 
Petrodroma muraria, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. xxvi. p. 106 (1818). 
Tichodroma phenicoptera, Temm. Man. d’Orn. i. p. 412 (1820). 
Tichodroma europea, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 187 (1826). 
Tichodroma subhemalayana, Hodgs. in Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1831). 
Tichodroma nepalensis, Bonap. Consp. Gen. Ay. i. p. 225 (1850). 
Loiseau papillon, Parpeillon, Planet, Pic de murailles, Pic @araignées, Grimpereau de rocs, 
French (Bailly); Rothfliigelige Mauerklette, Alsatian (Krener); Alpen-Mauerklette, 
German; Picchio murajola, Italian; Pomurnik, Polish. 
Figure notabiles. 
Buff. Pl. Enl. 372; Roux, Orn. Prov. pl. 238; Naum. Vog. Deutschl. v. Taf. 141; Gould, 
B. of E. iii. pl. 239; Bailly, Orn. Sav. Atlas, iii. pl. 1. figs. 1-5; Bree, B. of Eur. iii. 
p. 158; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. Taf. 22. fig. 21. 
3 ad. estiv. supra cinereus, pileo paullo saturatiore, scapularibus vix roseo tinctis: uropygio et supracaudalibus 
nigricanti-cinereis: tectricibus alarum pulchré coccineis, majoribus saturatioribus, nigricantibus et ad 
basin cinereo lavatis: remigibus nigricanti-brunneis, extus ad basin coccineis, secundariis dorsalibus 
cineraceo laté lavatis: primariorum pogonio interno maculis duabus albis conspicué notato: remigibus 
omnibus albido apicatis, secundariis latius: caud& nigra cinereo terminata, rectricibus duabus exteri- 
oribus versus apicem albis: gutture toto et pectore antico nigerrimis: corpore subtus reliquo saturate 
cinereo, subcaudalibus albo terminatis: subalaribus coccineis, majoribus nigricante mixtis: rostro et 
pedibus nigris: iride nigra. 
® mari similis, sed gutturis nigredine minus extenséa. 
3 hiem. similis ptilosi eestivee, sed supra pulchré argenteo-cinereo, pileo cinerascente: gutture toto et pectore 
antico pure albis, haud nigris. 
Adult male in breeding-plumage. Above clear grey, a little paler on the scapulars, which are slightly tinged 
with rosy, the head darker grey, and the rump and upper tail-coverts deep iron-grey, almost blackish ; 
wing-coverts crimson, the greater ones much deeper, and shading off into blackish towards the tips, grey 
near the base, the outermost feathers of this row of coverts blacker than the rest ; quills blackish brown, 
the outer web conspicuously crimson near the base, all the feathers tipped with whitish, the secondaries 
more broadly, the latter also being shaded with ashy; the first four primaries with a double spot of 
white on the inner web—one near the base of the quill, and the other not far from the end; tail black, 
the feathers broadly tipped with grey, which inclines to white on the two outermost; sides of the face 
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