Common Creeper, which it nearly resembles iit 

 size, but is of a greenish colour above, and pale 

 yellow beneath with a mij^ture of green : on each 

 Slide the neck is a bhie streak, descending from ther 

 base of the bill, and on the throat a rufous spot ; 

 Ihe quill-feathers are brown with green edges, and 

 the tail greenish brown. This remarkable variety^ 

 if such it be, and not rather a distinct species, is a 

 native of the Dutehy of Carniola in Austria. 



' WALL CREEPER. 



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Certhia muram. C. cinerea, alls caudaque nigris, tectricibus rasm^ 



remigibus rosea marginatis. 

 Cinereous Creeper, with black wings and taiU the coverts rose* 



coloured ; the quills edged with rose-colour. 

 Certhia muraria. C. cinera, macula alarum fulva^ Lin, Si/sL Nat, 

 Picus murarius. Gesn, Aldr, Will, ^c, 



Grimpereau de inuraille. Buff. ois. PI. Enl. 372. VietL CertK 

 pi 73. 



Wall Creeper. Lath. syn. Ediv. pi. 36l. 



This very elegant species, which is principally 

 found in the warmer parts of Europe, is consider- 

 ably larger than the Common Creeper, measuring 

 about six inches and three quarters in total length: 

 its colour is deep blueish grey, somewhat darker 

 beneath: the wing-coverts and middle quill-feathers^ 

 black, the smallest or those nearest the body edged 

 with white : the tail short and black, with the two 

 exterior feathers on each side tipped with white ; 



