WALL CREEPER. 
their outer webs, for half their lengths next 
their bottoms, of a fine red wine colour : ex- 
cept the three outer, and three innermost, 
which are blackish ; as is the remaining part 
of the quills toward their tips, except the very; 
tips, which are all edged with ash-colour. 
Four of the outer quills are marked, each of 
them, with two white spots on their inner 
webs ; the next within them have only one 
spot : except these spots, the insidcs of the 
quills are dusky. '1 ne legs, feet, and claws, 
are black. It has three toes standing forvv-ard, 
and one backward. The outer toe adheres a 
Httle to the middle one, at it's bottom. The 
hinder toe is strong, as in others of the Creeper 
kind, in order the better to support them on die 
sides of walls and trees. The claws are re- 
markably long." 
To this minute description, Edwards adds, 
that the bird was sent from Turin, where it is 
called the Mountain Woodpecker, and said to 
be rare in Piedmont. Willughby, lie remarks, 
has given a very lame and brief descri[)tion, 
and bad figure, of this bird; taken from our 
■first modern natural historians, who say it is 
found 
