WALL CREEPER. 
found in England ; but Willughby could never 
meet with it here. ** Nor," concludes Ed- 
wards, " do I believe it to be a native, or bird 
of passage into England ; for, in all my 
searches, the bird here described is the only- 
specimen I ever saw : therefore, I was willing 
exavflily to figure and describe it, though it 
makes a plate above my proposed number. It 
coming late to my hands, it could not be put 
into it's proper place : it should follow the 
Hoopoe, being near of kin to that species." 
Buiton gives a vcrv good description of tlie 
Wall Creeper. " All the motions," savs he, 
which the Common Creeper performs on 
trees, this performs on walls: it Icxlgcs there ; 
and there it climbs, hunts, and breetls. By- 
walls, I mean not only those built by man, 
but those formed by nature, the huge perpen- 
dicular rocks. Schwenckfcld says, that it is 
commonly seen in citadels built on mountains. 
Kramer remarks, that these birds prefer the 
haunts of the tombs, and deposit their eggs in 
luiman scuils. 1 hev tiv dapping their wings 
like the Lanwing ; and, though they are larger 
than the Common Creepers, they arc CQually 
lively 
