PIES, 
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Creeper, Br. Zool. fol. tab. K. Br. Zool. I. XXXIX. According Ex, 
to its name, creeps up and down the trunks and branches of 
trees, feeding on infects, their eggs and larva. 
Inhabits Europe , Afia, Africa , and America. 
Certhia of Linnaeus and Brijfon , III. 602. The firft has XXV 
fpecies; the laft XXXII. 
Bill, (lender and weak; in fome ftrait, mothers incurvated. 
Nostrils, minute. 
Tongue, very long, formed of two conjoined cylindric tubes; 
miffile. 
Toes, three forward, one backward. 
Tail, confifts of ten feathers. 
XXIX. HONEY- 
SUCKER, 
Long tailed red humming bird, Edw. XXXII. which is the fort 
with crooked bills, called by Brijfon , Polytmi . 
White bellied humming bird, Edw. XXXV. or the kind with 
ftrait bills : The Mellifuga of Brijfon. 
Feeds on the fweet juices of flowers, which it fucks out with its 
tubular tongue, hanging in the air on its wings. 
Inhabits America , efpecially the warm parts : A numerous genus. 
'Trochilus of Linnaeus ; Polytmus and Mellifuga of Brifjon. Lin- 
naeus has XXII fpecies ; Brijfon XVI of the Polytmus , XX of 
the Mellifuga. The old Englijh name was Humming-bird ; which 
I now change to Honey-Sucker. 
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