. Bird notes . an abnorm-ality confined to one era few individuals, for ]\Ir. found allthe Coal-Tits of the district so coloured—a specimen has beenexamined by the Dept. of the J^ritisli JNIuseum and hasbeen given specific distinction as the Irish-Tit (Panes hiber-nicus). The particulars were supplied to the Daily Mail byMr. Louis Wain on the authority of Sir William Ingram. BRITISH BIRDS. The Tree-creeper. By P. V. M. (Jalloway. First, I had better give a brief description and rangeof the species. The adult male is brown on the upper surface, Initut-arly the whole of the i)knnage
. Bird notes . an abnorm-ality confined to one era few individuals, for ]\Ir. found allthe Coal-Tits of the district so coloured—a specimen has beenexamined by the Dept. of the J^ritisli JNIuseum and hasbeen given specific distinction as the Irish-Tit (Panes hiber-nicus). The particulars were supplied to the Daily Mail byMr. Louis Wain on the authority of Sir William Ingram. BRITISH BIRDS. The Tree-creeper. By P. V. M. (Jalloway. First, I had better give a brief description and rangeof the species. The adult male is brown on the upper surface, Initut-arly the whole of the i)knnage is washed with golden-bull;the leatlieis of the head and back are streaked with ashy-greycentres; rump and upper tail-coverts bright tawny, the long British Birds. 23 fluffy feathers a white streak near tlie tips; lores dusky; streakover the eye, sides of face and under surface silky-white;loverts tipped with white, except the greater, which are tippedwith golden-buff, preceded by a black band: quills dusky. Tree-(Comn]on) Creeper iOerflria fanuliaris)Ihproduced friHH CaKxelVn Xutural kind ctiinie^n nfthp j)/d)Iishpr>i. variegated with Ijufiish-white and lilack; tail feathers brownwitli reddish shaft streaks; bill dark brown; feet brown;iiis hazel. Length over all 5| inches of which the tailmeasures nearly 2 and the bill j. 24 British Birds. It is resident in practically ovei-y j)art of the BritishIsles and also throughout Europe, in fact is found over thewhole Pala^arctic region. In spite of its specific name itis not by any means a familiar bird to the field naturalist, butit is always an object of interest when the opportunity to ob-serve it foraging for small insects, in the pursuit of whichit actively climbs and runs about the trunks or branches oftrees. [The British-Creeper has been given specific distinction byRidgway as C. britannica, but it is more generally known byits Linnean name. The Continental species is certainly greyerand less tawny than our
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