WALL CREEPER. 
This fine bird is the Ccrthia Muraria, o£ 
Linn:Eus, Gmelin, occ. the Picus Miirarius^! 
of Ray and Willughby,; the Grimpereau de 
Muraillc, of Brisson and BufFon; and the 
Wall Creeper, or Spider Catcher, of Edwards. 
In Germany, it is called Mauer Specht, of^ 
Wall Spight, and Kletten Specht, or Creeper 
Spight ; in Denmark, Scopoii ; and, in Polaad, 
Dzieciot Murowy. 
Edwards, whose excellent figure we have 
copied on a somewhat reduced scale, supposes 
this subjedl, which he etched on the copper 
immediately from the bird preserved dry, to 
have been a Hen ; because, as he observes, he 
finds in Brisson a good figure and description 
of the Cock, which only differs from it, m 
having the throat black for an inch or more 
from the lower mandible of the bilL Bris- 
son, who gives the measures of it's parts, 
which in general were something shorter than 
ia Edwarda's bird, remarks that the Female 
differs 
