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‘a GENUS 25s 6 & ROT .B £a. 
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Bill is bowed, weak, and flender, a little triangular, (or 
three-fided, ) and pointed. 
The tongue pointed, and grifily at the end. 
The feet formed for walking or hopping, or three toes 
before and one behind.. 
~ PAAHE head, back, and wings are of a dufky 
; ig red, or brownifh colour; the throat and 
; “treaft white ; and the back and wings brown 3 
the legs are fhort. 
The tail is long for the-fize of the bird, and 
very proper to affift him in climbing. 
The tongue is not longer than the bill, but it 
is armed with a bony point. Pre 
| ‘The toes and claws are very long. He creeps 
f ‘yp and down trees in fearch of infects to feed 
upon. Creepers breed in hollow trees, and fome 
fay, lay twenty eggs; but M. Buffon tells us, 
| that they never lay more than feven. ‘They 
have three toes before and q@ne behind, and they 
can run not only up and down and round the tree, 
but under the branches, with their backs down- 
wards, . 
maD: ” Their 
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