CHAPTEK XXIV. 
BROWN CREEPER AND HIS FRIENDS . 
“ TTTHAT a funny little bird!” exclaimed Clara, 
' * “ climbing up the tree as if he hadn’t any 
wings! Why, he looks almost like a turtle, Miss 
Harson, except his sharp bill. — Look, Edie!” 
Edith laughed too over the picture of the brown 
creeper (Fig. 22), and Malcolm declared that he had 
never seen such a bird as that. 
“ You will have to go to the woods to find him,” 
said Miss Harson, “ and then 
look carefully, perhaps, before 
you happen to see him. Some 
one has written of this bird : 
‘ A retired inhabitant of the 
woods and groves, and not in 
any way conspicuous for voice 
Fig. 22 .—Brown Creeper. or plumage, it passes its days 
with us, attracting scarcely any notice or attention. 
Its small size and the manner in which it procures 
its food both tend to secrete it from sight. In 
these pursuits its actions are more like those of a 
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