PLATE CLIV. 



Certhia minor. Frijch. /. S9. 



Certhi A. Rail Syn, p. 47. a, 5.— Will. Orn.p. 100. /. 23. 

 Falcinellus arboreus noftras, Klein, Av. p. 106. 1. 

 Ifpida Cauda rigida, Kramer EL p. 337, 2. 

 Picchio, Piccolo, Zinnan, Uov.p, 75. /. 11./ 6C, 

 Common Creeper, Br. Zool. 1. No. 92. /. Sd,-^Lalh. Gen. Syn, 2, 



p,70l,--Id.Sup.p, 136, 



Of the many fpecies contained in the Genus Certhia, this is per- 

 haps the only one that can be introduced with implicit confidence 

 among the feries of Britifh Birds. There is another, Certhia Mura- 

 ria, or Wall-Creeper, an European bird of very uncommon fcarcity, 

 and no lefs remarkable for its richly varied plumage of black and crim- 

 fon, which has obtained a place in the Britilh Fauna, on the authority 

 ©fa zealous colle6lGr, and from refpe^t to that authority it cannot be 

 amifs, in the prefent in fiance, to fiate the cii cumftancc. It muft be 

 neverthelefs acknowledged, that there is no very fati^faQory evidence 

 of its being Britilh, and, therefore, at Icaft, for the prefent, the Certhia 

 familiar is isto be confidcred as the only well authenticated fpecies 

 of its genus found in Britain*. 



♦ Dr. Latham alludes to the prevalence of this opinion in the following obfervation on 

 Certhia muraria. '* Buffon does not rank it as a bird of France ; and I will venture to 

 iay that it was never found in England whoever may affert to the contrary.'* Synof>. V, z. 

 f>. I. 73 f. As there is no precife reference to the information on which this general opi- 

 nion refted at that time, we cannot pretend to fay whether the late opinion of its being 

 Brliiih might be derived from the fame fource of authority or not. Yet under all its cir- 

 rumftances one h£t is certain that Certhia Muraria has been confidered as a Britilh bird, 

 liewcY«r ^ueftiosabU roaybs ih« authority ©n which it rcfts-. 



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