WALL CREEPEP.. 
lively and a6live. Flies, Ants, and particu- 
larly Spiders, are their usual food. 
" Belon supposed this species peculiar to 
Auvergne : but it occurs in Austria, Siberia, 
Switzerland, Poland, Lorraine, and particu- 
larly the part bordering on Germany ; and 
even in England, according to some, though 
others regard it as at least very rare. On the 
contrary, it is common in Italy, near Bologna 
and Florence, but much less frequent in Pied- 
mont. 
It is chiefly in winter that these birds ap- 
pear near dwellings ; 'and, if we may believe 
Belon, they are heard flying at a great distance 
in the air ; descending from the mountains, 
to lodge on the walls of cities. They keep 
single ; or, at least, by two and two, like most 
birds that feed on insefts: and, though solitary, 
they arc neither weary nor melancholy ; so 
certain it is, that chearfulness depends more on 
the original disposition, than on the enlivening 
influence of society. 
** In the Male, there is a black mark under 
the 
