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CERTHIAM. 
The Lesser Spotted Woodpecker ( Picus minor) is found from 
Yorkshire southward in England (Yarr.), but is not known in Scotland. 
The Wryneck ( Yunx Torquilla , Linn.). There is no record of 
this species having ever been met with in Ireland. It is chiefly found in 
the south-eastern counties of England, but also visits the western 
and northern. It has rarely been seen in Scotland. On the 29th of 
April, 1841, I saw one among some shrubby plants in the island of 
Sphacteria, which bounds the western side of the fine bay of Navarino. 
On the 25th of the same month, a wryneck, which alighted in H.M.S. 
Beacon, when about sixty miles to the south-east of Calabria, was cap- 
tured. 
The Nuthatch ( Sitta europcea) sent to a bird-preserver in the 
metropolis, was, on the same presumptive evidence as the green wood- 
pecker, mentioned to me as an Irish bird ; but on inquiry it was found 
to have been killed in Wales. This species is not known to have ever 
visited Ireland ; it is said to be pretty generally distributed in England; 
but not to be found in Scotland. (Jard. : Macgil.) 
THE TREE CREEPER. 
Certhia familiaris, Linn. 
Inhabits districts generally throughout Ireland in which 
old wood prevails, and is everywhere resident. 
Owing to its habits, this is perhaps of all our native birds the least 
known. To the ornithologist it is particularly interesting, from 
being the only one of the zogodactyle birds indigenous to the 
island ; its presence, too, throughout the winter is an additional 
attraction. In the woods of the counties of Down, Antrim, and 
Fermanagh,* * * § this bird has occurred to me. It is found in the 
north of the county of Donegal ; t about Dublin and Youghal ; J 
is common in some parts of Westmeath, and about Killaloe ; || in 
Tipperary ; § and in Kerry. If Mr. Poole remarks that the creeper 
* Here I have seen this bird close to the house at Florence Court ; and a friend 
living near Belfast has observed it creeping up the yard-wall attached to his dwelling- 
house. There is in reality nothing remarkable in such cases : they are mentioned, 
as some persons imagine that the creeper never leaves the depth of woods, 
f J. V. Stewart. f Ball. || Rev. T. Knox. 
§ Davis. ^ Neligan. 
