PLATE CLIV. 



The habits of the Common Tree-Creeper refemble thofe of its 

 congeners ; it fubfifts on infefts which it collects on trees, and in 

 ueft of which this little bird is obferved running up and down the 

 trunks of trees, fearching among the mofs or pecking into the ere 

 vices. The moment it perceives itfelf watched, it turns to the 

 oppofite fide of the tree, and refts quiet and concealed : and fhould 

 the obferver follow it to that fide, it again fliifts its pofition fo 

 as conftantly to conceal itfelf on the fide oppofite the fpe£lator. 

 They breed in the hollows of trees, forming their neft in a conveni- 

 ent recefs which they line with dried vegetables, fragments of light 

 rotten wood and a few feathers. Their eggs, from fix to eight in 

 number are white powdered or fpeckled with ferruginous. 



This bird is an inhabitant of Afia and America, as well as Europe^ 

 and is faid to be no where more abundant than in this country. With 

 us it is a reCdent throughout the year. Its note is weak and mono- 

 tonous. 



