260 
XI, 
CREEPER. 
gt. CREEP- 
ER, 
DeEscRIP. 
C RSE EOPTEDRG - Cuass II. : 
Very flender BILL, very much incurvated. 
Twelve feathers in the TAIL. 
Le petit Grimpereau. Beloz Le a ee: Briffon Il. 
av. 
cane  Cofner AU. 251. a cosh app. 37. 
fldr. av. I. 424. Certhia familiaris. Liz. /y/. 
Wil. orn. ie TSAp ee 
Raii fyn. av. Krypare. Faun. Suec. fp. 106. 
The Oxeye Cae Charl- 'Trze-Pikke v. Lie-Helten. 
ton ex. 93- Br. p. 12. Scopoli, No. 59. 
Picchio piccolo. Zinman. 75. | Grau-Specht. Fri/ch, I. 39. 
Baumlaufterl. Kram. 337. 
Br. Zool. 82. plate K. 
HE creeper weighs only five drams: and 
next to the crefted wren is the left of the 
Britifo birds: the manner it has of ruffling its fea- 
thers, and their length give it a much larger ap- 
pearance than is real. The length of this bird is 
five inches and a half: the breadth feven and a half; 
the bill is hooked like a fickle: the irides hazel: 
the legs flender: the toes and claws very long, 
to enable it to creep up and down the bodies of 
trees in fearch of infects, which are its food: it 
breeds in hollow trees; and Jays fometimes twenty 
egos: the head and upper part of the neck are brown, 
ftreaked with black: the rump is tawny: the co- 
verts of the wings are variegated with brown and 
black: the quil-feathers dufky,  tipt with white, 
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