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GENUS 95. : C E RT BY Boas: 
Tur CREEP Ei Ris sak 
eee Bi 1s heim col and Hewilen a little triangular, Ee | 
three: fided,) and pointed. 
The tongue pointed, and erifily at the end. © 
| The feet formed for walking or hopping, or three toes 
before ag one behind. 
HE iol hag ‘ad wings are of a dufky ’ 
red, or brownifh colour ; the throat and _ 
 breaft white; and the back and me brown 3, 
the legs are fhort. 
The tail is long for the fize of the bird, and 
very proper to affift him in climbing. one i 
_ The tongue is not longer than the bill, but it 
ae is armed with a bony point. 
‘The toes and claws are very long. He creeps 
up and down trees in fearch of infeis to. feed 
upon. Creepers breed in hollow trees, and fome 
fay, lay twenty eggs 4 but M, Bufion te lls us, 
that they never lay more than feven. They 
have three toes before and one behind, and they’ 
-€an run not only up and down and round the tree, 
-. but under the BEAnED Ss: - with their backs down- a 
wards, | 
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