194 creeper: CkfsII. 



length give it a much larger appearance than is real. 

 Defer. 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 infefts, which 

 are its food : it breeds in hollow trees ; and lays 

 fometimes twenty eggs : the head and upper part of 

 the neck are brown, Itreaked with black : the rump 

 is tawny : the coverts of the wings are variegated 

 with brown and black : the quil-feathers dullcy, 

 tipt with white, and edged and barred with tawny 

 marks : the breaft and belly are of a filvery white : 

 the tail is very long, and confills of twelve fliff 

 feathers ; notwithftanding Mr. Willoughhy^ and 

 other ornithologifls give it but ten : they are of 

 a tawny hue, and the interior ends of each Hope 

 off to a Doint. 



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