. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . the two genera is similar as to texture ; butwhile the tail of the former is short and generally raised, it isin the latter elongated, and employed in supporting the bird asit ascends the trunks of trees. The toes, and especially the claws,are longer in Certhia. The Tree-Creepers resemble the Woodpeckers in their modeof progression, which is by
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . the two genera is similar as to texture ; butwhile the tail of the former is short and generally raised, it isin the latter elongated, and employed in supporting the bird asit ascends the trunks of trees. The toes, and especially the claws,are longer in Certhia. The Tree-Creepers resemble the Woodpeckers in their modeof progression, which is by extremely rapid short hops or startsagainst the bark of trees, to which they cling with their sharpclaws. Their bill however is so slender and weak that theycannot employ it in perforating the bark or decayed wood,and they are therefore content with searching the chinks fortheir food, which consists of small insects and larva?. Theynestle in holes, and have a rather numerous progeny. Very few species of this genus are known, and only one oc-curs in Britain, the history of which will afford a good idea ofthe habits of the rest. 33 CERTHIA FAMILIARIS. THE BROWN TREE-CREEPER. CREEPER. TREE-SPEELER. BROWN WOODPECKER. SNAIGEAR. MEANGLAN- Certhia familiaris. Linn. Syst, Nat. I. 184. Certhia familiaris. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 280. Common Creeper. Mont. Orn. Diet. Le Grirapereau. Certhia familiaris. Temm. Man. dOrn. L 410. Common Creeper. Certhia familiaris. vSelb. Illustr. I. 388. Certhia familiaris. Common Creeper. Jen, Brit. Vert. An. 152. Upper part of the head darh-hrown^ neck and hack yellowish-hroicn^ each feather with a median ichitish streak ; rump yelloicish-red; wings with a transverse whitish hand ; lower parts silvery. Male.—The Tree-creeper, which is one of the smallest ofour native birds, weighing only about two drams, is of a slenderelongated form, with the neck short, the head ovato-oblong, andof moderate size. The bill is nearly as long as the head, arcuate
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