ROCK-CEEEPER. 



TICHODROMA MURARIA {Linn.). 



Certhia muraria, Linn. S. N. i. p. 184 (1766). 

 Tichodroma muraria, Naum. v. p. 421 ; Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. ix ; 

 Dresser, iii. p. 207. 



Tichodrome echelette, Grimpereau de murailles, Pic 

 d'araignees, French ; Mauerlaufer, German ; AraHero, 

 Pela rocas, Spanish. 



Two instances only of the occurrence of this remark- 

 able and very beautiful bird in our country have hitherto 

 been recorded ; with regard to the first of these I quote 

 from a most interesting correspondence between Robert 

 Marsham of Stratton-Strawless in Norfolk and Gilbert 

 White of Selborne, communicated to the Transactions 

 of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society by the 

 Rev. H. P. Marsham and Professor Bell, and published 

 in the Journal of that Society, vol. ii. pp. 133-195 : at 

 p. 180 of the volume to which I refer, under the date 

 of October 30, 1792, Marsham writes to White as 

 follows : — " My man has just now shot me a bird, which 

 was flying about my house : I am confident I have 

 never seen its likeness before. But, on application to 

 Wilughby, I conclude it is the Wall-Creeper, or Spider- 



