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THE WALL-CREEPER. 
TIcHODROMA MURARIA (Linnzeus). 
This inhabitant of the mountainous regions of Europe and Asia 
is a very unusual wanderer to England. The first authenticated 
instance was furnished by the late Thomas Bell, who published 
(Zool. s.s. p. 4664, and Tr. Norfolk and Norw. Nat. Soc. ii. p. 180) 
a letter from Robert Marsham of Stratton-Strawless, Norfolk, to 
Gilbert White of Selborne, dated October 30th 1792, containing an 
accurate description of a Wall-Creeper which had just been shot 
whilst flying about his house. Eighty years later Mr. F. S. Mitchell 
stated (Zool. s.s. p. 4839) that one, then in his possession, was shot 
on May 8th 1872, at Sabden, at the foot of Pendle Hill, in 
Lancashire, when flying around a tall chimney, and attracting the 
attention of the mill-hands by its crimson-banded wings. Mr. 
W. R. Butterfield recorded (Zool. 1896, p. 302) the occurrence of an 
adult in breeding-plumage some years ago near Winchelsea, Sussex. 
