CREEPER. 209 



* OF THE OLD CONTINENT. 



1. — COMMON CREEPER. 



Certhia familiaris, Ind. Orn. i. 280. Lin. i. 184. Faun. Suec. No. 106. Gmel. Lin.i. 



469. Scop. i. No. 59. Muller No. 104. J3ntw. No. 12. Sepp Fog. t. p. 59. 



Gerin. ii. 1. 195. f. 1. Borowsk. ii. 154. Ph. Trans, xxvi. 124. 5e/ice/. El. t. 25. 



Fj«7/. Jot. ii. p. 70. Tern. Man. d'Orn. 252. Id. Ed. ii. p. 410. 

 Certhius minor, Frisch. t. 39. 

 Falcinellus arboreus nostras, Klein An. 106, 

 Ispida cauda rigida, Kram. 337. 



Certhia, Rail 47. A. 5. Will. 100. t. 23. Bris. iii. 603. Id. 8vo. ii. p. 2. 

 Grimpereau, Buf. v. 481. pi. 21. 1. PI. enl. 681. Hist. Prov. i. 484. Ow. dor*\\. 



107. pi. 72. 

 Baumklette, Naturf. ix. s. 59. 

 Picchio, Piccolo, Zinnan. Uov. lxxv. t. 11. f. 66. 



Der gemeine Baumlaufer, Bechst. Deutsch. ii. s. 550. Schmid Fog. p. 59. t. 46. 

 Ox-eye Creeper, Co/lms's Birds, pi. iv. f. 7. male. pi. 9. f. 7. female. 

 Common Creeper, Gen. Syn. ii. 701. Id. Sup. 126. Br. Zool. i. No. 92. pi. 39. Id. 

 fol. 82. t. K. Id. 1812. p. 345. pi. 43. Arct. Zool. ii. 174, Catesb. Car. App. 



37. Albin iii. pi. 25. Bewick i. pi. p. 125. Lewin ii. pi. 55. Id. Eggs pi. 9. 



f. 3. Walcot'u t. 54. Pult. Dorset, p. 5. Shaw's Zool. viii. 186. pi. 24. Graves 



Br. Orn. Id. Ov. Brit. Pt. i. pi. 5. Amer. Orn. i. pi. 1. f. 1. Orn. Diet. 



THIS is one of the smallest of our English birds ; weight five 

 drams ; it is five inches long, and six and a half broad. Bill hooked 

 like a sickle, the upper mandible brown, the lower whitish ; irides 

 hazel ; general colour of the plumage above brown, streaked with 

 black ; rump tawny ; wing coverts varied brown and black ; quills 

 dusky, tipped with white ; and edged and barred with tawny ; breast 

 and belly silvery white ; sides over the thighs, and vent with a rufous 

 tinge; tail long, cuneiform, of twelve stiff, and tawny feathers, the 



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