. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. certhiida:. 117. THE TREE-CREEPER. C^RTHiA familiAris, Linnjgus. Although tolerably numerous, the Tree Creeper is not very fre- quently observed, owing to its small size, modest colours, and the quickness with which it shifts its position on the trunk or branch of the tree where it is seeking for spiders and other insects that lurk in the crevices of the bark. It is generally distributed throughout Great Britain from Cornwall to Caithness, occasionally wandering to the Orkneys and Shetlands, and residing in Skye, though not found in the Outer He
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. certhiida:. 117. THE TREE-CREEPER. C^RTHiA familiAris, Linnjgus. Although tolerably numerous, the Tree Creeper is not very fre- quently observed, owing to its small size, modest colours, and the quickness with which it shifts its position on the trunk or branch of the tree where it is seeking for spiders and other insects that lurk in the crevices of the bark. It is generally distributed throughout Great Britain from Cornwall to Caithness, occasionally wandering to the Orkneys and Shetlands, and residing in Skye, though not found in the Outer Hebrides. In Ireland it is common in every county where timber prevails. In Norway the Tree-Creeper is abundant in all the lower conifer- woods up to Trondhjems-fjord; while eastward it occurs in Sweden, Russia, and across Siberia, as far north as trees flourish, to the Pacific. Southward, it is found in Japan, Northern China, and Asia down to the Himalayas, in and south of which several distinct species replace it; westward, it inhabits Persia, Asia Minor, Tunisia, Algeria, and the basin of the Mediterranean generally as far as the Spanish Peninsula; and central it is distributed throughout Europe in suitable localities. Mr. Hartert (' Novitates Zoologicge,'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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