PLATE LI. 
The Creeper, 
TThE bird defcribed on this plate is of the lefler kind, and generally inhabits gardens and planta- 
tions of evergreens, where there is fhelter and warmth, it being a tender bird. They build their 
nefts in low trees and bulhes, and fonietimes amongll the ling which grows thick under the firs, &c. 
The neft is made of dried grafs and bents, and lined neatly with the fame : in thefe they lay five 
fmall white eggs, fpOtted with a faint red, they feed on the infeSs, flies, &c. which they find on 
trees, as they feldom alight on the ground. Their flight is fhort in fearch of food, from branch to 
branch only, creeping over the trees, from whence they are called creepers. They are a bird of 
no fong. It is to be remarked, that a kind of hair or briftle grows on the nollril or bafe of the bill, 
peculiar to all birds' of this clafs. 
