The Brown Creepers 
Distribution in California. —Resident in the northwest humid coastal strip 
south to Big Creek, Monterey County; occurs in winter in the San Francisco Bay region 
and doubtless elsewhere at lower levels. 
Authorities.—Cooper (Certhia mexicana ), Orn. Calif., 1870, p. 58, part (Coast 
Ranges, south to Santa Cruz); Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. v., 1882, p. 257, 
part (orig. desc.; distr. in Calif.); Grinnell, Condor, vol. iv., 1902, p. 126 (Monterey Co.; 
habits); Beal, U. S. Dept. Agric., Biol. Surv. Bull., no. 30, 1907, p. 66 (food); Pemberton 
and Carriger, Condor, vol. xvii., 1915, p. 199 (Monterey Co., nesting). 
Taken in Fresno County Photo by the Author 
CREEPER COUNTRY 
TO ONE who loves birds with an all-inclusive passion—such as the 
undecided bachelor is wont to confess for the fair sex—the temptation 
to use superlatives upon each successive species, as it is brought under 
review, is very strong. But here, perhaps, we may be pardoned for 
relaxing our attention, or, it may be, for being caught in the act of stifling 
a little yawn. Certhia is a prosy drab, and all the beauty she possesses 
is in the eyes of her little hubby—dear, devoted creature. 
This clerkling (hubby, of course, I mean) was brought into the 
world behind a bit of bark. His first steps, or creeps, were taken along 
the bark of the home tree. When the little wings got stronger and when 
