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BLACK AND WHITE CREEPER. 
ochre, streaked with black : upper mandible, brown ; lower, 
bluish white ; eyelids, furnished with strong black hairs ; legs 
and feet, very large, and of a pale flesh colour* 
The female has the black crescent more skirted with gray, 
and not of so deep a black. In the rest of her markings, the 
plumage differs little from that of the male. I must here take 
notice of a mistake committed by Mr Edwards in his History 
of Birds, vol. vi. p. 123, where, on the authority of a bird 
dealer of London, he describes the Calandre Lark, (a native 
of Italy and Russia,) as belonging also to North America, 
and having been brought from Carolina. I can say with 
confidence, that, in all my excursions through that and the 
rest of the southern states, I never met such a bird, nor any 
person who had ever seen it. I have no hesitation in believing, 
that the Calandre is not a native of the United States. 
BLACK AND WHITE CREEPER CERTHIA MACULATA. 
Plate XIX. Fig. 3. 
Edw. pi. 300 White Poll Warbler, Arct. Zool . 402. No. 293 — Le figuier varie, 
Buff. v. 305 Lath. ii. 488 — Turton , i. p. 803. — Peak's Museum , No. 7092. 
SYLVICOLA VARIA. — Jardine.* 
Sylvia vari a, Bonap. Synop. p. 81. — Le Mniotilla varie, Mniotilla varia, Vieill. Gall, 
des Ois. pi. 169. 
This nimble and expert little species seldom perches on 
the small twigs ; but circumambulates the trunk and larger 
branches, in quest of ants and other insects, with admirable 
dexterity. It arrives in Pennsylvania, from the south, about 
the 20th of April ; the young begin to fly early in July ; and 
the whole tribe abandon the country about the beginning of 
October. Sloane describes this bird as an inhabitant of the 
West India islands, where it probably winters. It was first 
* Thij| forms the type of Vieillot’s Mniotilla, and will, perhaps, shew the 
scansorial form in Sylvicola. — Ed. 
