202 BLACK AND WHITE CREEPER. 
"white, and tipped Avith Avhite ; tlic three secondaries next the body are 
dusky white on their inner webs, tipped on the exterior margin with 
white, and above that alternately streaked laterally with black and dull 
white ; the greater and lesser wing-coverts are exteriorly tipped Avith 
Avhite, the upper part of the exterior edges of the former rufous Avhite ; 
the line over the eye and Avhole loAver parts are Avhite, a little broAvnish 
toward the vent, but on the chin and throat pure, silky and glistening ; 
the Avhite curves iuAvards about the middle of the neck ; the bill is half 
an inch long, slender, compressed sidcAvise, bending doAvuAvards, tapering 
to a point, dusky above and white beloAv ; the nostrils are oblong, half 
covered Avith a convex membrane, and Avithout hairs or small feathers ; 
the inside of the mouth is reddish ; the tongue tapering gradually to a 
point, and horny toAvards the tip ; the eye is dark hazel ; the legs and 
feet a dirty clay color ; the toes placed three before and one behind, 
the tAvo outer ones connected Avitli the middle one to the first joint; the 
claws rather paler, large, almost semicircular, and extremely sharp 
pointed ; the hind claw the largest. The figure in the plate represents a 
male of the usual size in its exact proportions, and, but for the satisfac- 
tion of foreigners, might have rendered the Avhole of this prolix 
descriiDtion unnecessary. 
Species II. CERT HI A MACULATA* 
BLACK AND WHITE CREEPER. 
[Plate XIX. Fig. 3.] 
Edatards, pi. ZOO.— White -poll Warhler,Arct. Zool. 402, No. 293.— Lefgider varii, 
Buff, v, 30.5. — Lath, ii., 488. — Turton, i., p. 603. 
This nimble and expert little species seldom perches on the small 
twigs ; but circumambulates the trunk, and larger branches, in quest 
of ants and other insects, Avith admirable dexterity. It arrives in 
Pennsylvania, from the south, about the tAventieth of Ajwil, the young 
begin to fly early in July ; and the Avhole tribe abandon the country about 
the beginning of October. Sloane describes this bird as an inhabitant 
of the West India Islands, where it probably winters. It Avas first 
figured by EdAvards from a dried skin sent him by Mr. William Bartram, 
who gave it its present name. Succeeding naturalists have classed it 
with the Avarblers ; a mistake which I have endeavored to rectify. 
The genus of Creepers comprehends about thirty different species, 
many of which are richly adorned Avith gorgeous plumage; but, like 
* Linnajus placed this bird in his genus MotacilJa, and Latham arranged it in. 
Sijlvia. It does not belong to the genus Certhia as at present restricted. 
