CATALOGUE. 
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Genus Tichodroma, Illiger, Prod. Syst. Mamm. p. 210 (1811). 
Peteodiioma, Vieillot (1816). 
1046. TICHODROMA MURABIA, Linn. Sp. 
Certhia muraria, Linn. S. JST. I. p. 184 (PZ. LJnl 372). 
Lath. Hist. ofB. IV. p. 211. 
Tichodroma muraria, Illiger^ Prod. Syst. Mamm. p. 210. 
G. B. Gray, Gen. of B. I. p. 145. Hodgs., Catal. 
B. of Nepal, p. 61. BlytJi, J. A. S. Beng. XIV. 
p. 580 ; Catal. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 189. Hutton, 
J. A. 8. Beng. XVI. p. 782 ; Bonap., C. G. Av. 
p. 225. Cahanis, Catal. B. Mus. Heine, p. 94. 
Tichodroma phoenicoptera, TemmincTc. 
Tichodroma europsea, Stephens. Goidd, B. of Eur. 
t. 239. 
Tichodroma subhemalayana, Hodgson, (Jray'^s Zool. Misc. 
(1844),^. 82. 
Tichodroma nepalensis, Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 225 (1850). 
The Eock or Wall Creeper. 
Dewal Gaittjk, Pushut, Griffith, 
a. b. c. d. Pushut and Jellalabad. From Griffith's 
Collection. 
e. Ladakh. / Kumaon. Presented by Capt. R. Strachey. 
g. h. Himalaya. Reserved from the Indian Collection, 
Exposition Universelle at Paris, 1855. 
" This bird inhabits the mountainous parts of Europe and Asia. 
It is usually seen flitting from one projection of a rock to another, 
and hopping up and down the sides of them in continual search after 
its favourite food, which consists chiefly of spiders and their eggs, 
and also of various kinds of insects. Sometimes these birds are 
noticed hanging on the face of a ruined wall by means of their strong 
curved claws while seeking their food." — (Gray's Gen. of Birds.) 
" Common in the Himalaya, as also in Western Asia. Mr. Vigne 
(' Travels in Kashmir,' II. p. 20) remarks that it ' is found through- 
out the alpine Punjab, displaying the delicate scarlet patch upon its 
grey wings, as it flits over the perpendicular banks with the move- 
ments of a butterfly rather than of a bird.' " — (Blyth.) 
" This beautiful little bird was very common on the rocks near 
Candahar, and in other parts of Afghanistan." — (Capt. Hutton.) 
" Irides brown ; contents of stomach various insects, abundance of 
tichs, such as infest cattle."— (Griffith, MS. Notes.) 
