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CERTHIA FAMILTARIS. 
COMMON CiiEEPER. 
Grey; beneath white; quill-feathere 
brown ; ten of them with a white spot. 
Certhia Familiaris, Lin. Grae. 
Le Grimpereau, Bnffon. 
Common Creeper, Pen, Lath. Mont. 
Creeper, Bewick. 
PROVINCIAL. 
TREE-CLIMBER. 
The Common Creeper is the only spe- 
cies belonging to this genus, ever met 
with in the British Isles. Its length is 
rather more than five inches, and its 
breadth seven inches and a half. The 
length of its feathers, and its peculiar 
mode of ruffling them, gives this bird an 
appearance much larger than it really is. 
The female resembles the other sex in 
plumage, but its tail is shorter, and not 
so much forked. She makes her nest in 
a hole, or behind the bark of a decayed 
