BLACK AND WHITE CEEEPEE. 
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**6 length of this species is four inches and a half ; 
this bird near Savannah, in Georgia, early 
®>'ch ; hut it does not winter even in the southern 
of that State. 
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^1 ‘^*‘1) six and a half; front, and line over the eye, 
''’o*'y slender, overhanging at the tip, 
t}j^'''ood, broad, and furnished u ilh bristles at the base ; 
l,k oolour of the plumage above is a light bluish gray, 
on the head, below, bluish white ; tail, longer than 
fj I’ody, a little rounded, and black, except the exterior 
t(,. ®*‘®) which are almost all white, and the next 
W with white ; tail-coverts, black ; w'ings, 
black, some of the secondai-ies next the body 
fttb 1 ^ vvhite ; legs, extremely slender, about three- 
ji *^lhs of an inch long, and of a bluish black colour, 
f.*** female is distinguished by wanting the black line 
“""d the front. 
the'"® is winged nisects, and 
ill larv£e, but particularly the former, which it seems 
®st always in pursuit of. 
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' Srtfjj FARIA, RRIHAM.—CIiRTMIA MACVLATA, WILSON. 
SLACK AND WHITE CREEPEK. 
WILSON, PLATE XIS. FIG. III. 
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nimble and expert little species seldom perches 
twigs; but circumambulates the trunk 
ivUi ®*'8er branches, in quest of ants and other insects, 
ifoiw ®''“'i''aflo dexterity. It arrives in Pennsylvania, 
Wi? south, about the 20th of Aiiril ; the young 
the " % early in July ; and the whole tribe abandon 
(ie,j ®?''otry about the beginning of October. Sloane 
i'^la I inhabitant of the West India 
by '"■here it probably winters. It was iirst figured 
Wards from a dried skin sent him by Mr William 
,j,^i'am, who gave it its present name, 
dijp '® Senus of creepers comprehends about thirty 
species, many of which are richly adorned 
' gorgeous plumage ; but, like their congenial tribe. 
