CLIMBING LEAPLOYE. 273 . 
But that this union of the rasorial and the scan- 
sorial habits may be rendered perfectly unquestion- 
able, we shall now cite an instance where they are 
actually united in the same bird ! Wilson, in 
describing the Pine-creeping-warbler, ( Mniotilta 
piiuis, Swains.*) says, “ it runs along the hark of 
the pines ; sometimes alighting and feeding on the 
ground , and almost always, when disturbed, flying 
up and dinging to the trunks of the trees and 
again, “ these birds are easily known by their man- 
ner of rising from the ground and alighting” — not 
on the branches, hut — “ on the body of the tree.” 
Here, then, is a bird, belonging to the scansorial 
sub-genus of Sylvicola, which nevertheless feeds also 
upon the ground like a rasorial type. 
It now remains only to describe the plumage of 
this remarkable species. The upper part of the 
head as far as the nape is clear cinereous, which 
becomes paler on the sides and ears and changes to 
dull white on the chin and halfway down the 
throat ; beyond the nape the colour of the upper 
part of the neck and back is light olive, as are 
the wing-covers, hut this assumes a buff tinge on 
the rump and finally becomes clear ferruginous 
or light cinnamon colour on the tail ; the quills are 
darker and more of an olive-brown, the inner webs 
being black with a narrow edging of buff on the 
basal half inside. The under plumage is buff-white, 
deepest on the flanks and under tail-covers, which 
almost assimilate to the pale ferruginous of the 
* See also Northern Zool. ii. p. 205. 
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