The Oologist. 



Vol. XXIV. No. 4. 



Albion, N. Y.April, 1907. 



Whole No. 237 



THE OOLOGIST, 



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 FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, 

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The Brown Creeper. 



This active little bird can be seen 

 in our locality almost throughout the 

 whole year, always busily engaged 

 in looking for small insects, eggs and 

 larvae in the crevices of bark of 



pretty near all of our forest trees. 

 Their long, slender, partly curved 

 bill is a great aid to them, which part- 

 ly supplants the strong muscular 

 neck, bill and barbed tongue of the 

 Sapsuckers and Woodpeckers. It 

 cannot cut out the insects or larvae 

 from the bark of the oak, elm, maple 

 and pine trees, "but has to depend 

 mainly on its sharp eyes in detecting 

 in the crevices the minute eggs of 

 insects. 



Starting at the bottom of the trees 

 they ascend them by dainty and little 

 jerks in a spiral- manner, stopping 

 frequently for its prey, uttering a few 

 soft notes like "Lri, zri, zri," or "Sit, 

 sit, sit," and fly to the foot of a near- 

 by tree to go over the same perform- 

 ance. How well the color of this 

 little bird, a variety of rich browns, 

 curiously marked, the white under- 

 neath being out of sight, corresponds 

 with, the colors of this open winter. 



The Brown Creeper invariably runs 

 up a tree on the off-side if he sees 

 that you are watching him. It's 

 flight is very nervous and quick. In 

 spring it is much more numerous, as 

 the largest number of this climber 

 passes south in the fall and north in 

 the spring. 



It can be readily seen that the 

 Brown Creeper is of great benefit to 

 our forest trees, not being inclined 

 to change his food for a strawberry 

 or cherry, like the Red-headed Wood- 

 pecker, and not inviting the wrath of 

 the farmer going after him with a 

 shot gun. 



In the first week in April the mat- 

 ing season commences in our locality 



