Temminek says that what the Creeper deco upon trees the Wall Creeper does against the vertical faces of rocks, on which it sticks the trunks of trees. It feeds on insects, their lame, and pupoe, and is particularly fond of spiders and their eggs. Belon has figured his example clinging to a pillar with a spider in its bill. The nest is, made in clefts of the most inaccessible rocks, and in the crevices of ruins at a great height.
The bird moults twice a year. It is in the spring only that the male has the black on the throat, and this ornament disappears before the other feathers fall. The females moult also twice, but without changing colour, which makes it impossible to distinguish the sexes after pairing and breeding time. The young may be distinguished from their parents before their first moult, but in winter no difference is observable. (Temminek.) Dendrocolaptes (Dendrocopus, Vieill.) Bill long or moderate, com pressed laterally, rather strong, convex, straight or curved, or only curved towards the extremity, pointed ; nostrils lateral, round, open ; tongue short and cartilaginous; third, fourth, and fifth quills the longest; tail-feathers stiff, pointed ; hind toe shortest ; claws very much curved, channeled.
D. procurrua (Temm.), D. trochilorostris ( \Vied), is the size of the blackbird. Bill strongly curved, and nearly 20 lines long ; tail graduated, and each feather terminated by a stiff point ; general colour cinnamon, passing into dirty ruddy gray on the head and belly; there are numerous white spots on the head and neck. It is a native of Brazil.
Climacteric. Bill short, weak, very much compressed throughout its length, but little curved, oval shaped ; mandibles equal, pointed ; nostrils basal, lateral, covered by a naked membrane ; feet robust ; tarsi of the length of the middle toe, which as well as the hallnx are extraordinarily long ; claws large and curved, channeled on the sides, subulate, very much hooked; external toe united up to tho second articulation, the internal toe as far as the first; lateral toes very unequal ; wings moderate ; first second shorter than the third; which last and the fourth are the longest. (Temminek.) C. Tie-essays. The summit of the head is deep gray; nape and neck bright gray; wings and two middle feathers of the tail brown ; a large nankeen-coloured band panes nearly through the middle of the quills ; tail feathers black, except at their origin and extremity ; throat and cheeks dirty white; breast gray; feathers of the lower parts white in the middle, bordered with brown ; lower coverts of the tail Isabella-ealour, marked with transvcrso brown spots; length 6 inches 6 linos. (Tents.) Locality, Timor, Celebes, and the north
coast of Australia.
This genus bears a strong relation to the Souianangas.
nearly equal in length, and the external toe is nnittal with the middle too at its base ; the claw of the posterior toe is double the length of the anterior toes, which are very much compressed at the sides, curved, and pointed. The entire plumage of the bird is a clear fuliginous brown, spread equally over all the parts of the body, the neck alone exhibiting yellow and brown ill-defined Arne; the under side of the tail is of a bright gray-brown ; a yellow band of deeper tint occupies the middle of the great quills, and forms a kind of scarf when the bird is in flight ; the extremity of the quills is a little deeper than the rest of the plumage, and their external border is a shade brighter." (Lesson.) The F. fuliginesus inhabits the Malouine Island& It lives upon the beach, where its familiarity and fearless disposition permits approach till it may be almost touched with the hand. Its sombre plumage has caused it to be mentioned under the name of Merle in tho narra tives of some voyages. I'ernetty, who sojourned at the Malonines, thus describes it : "This bird is so tame that it will almost fly upon the finger ; in lege than half an hour I killed ten with a small switch, and almost without changing my position. It scratches in the goiimous (focus) which the sea throws upon the beach, and there eats worms and small shrimps, which they call sea-fleas (Nees do mer)." " Its flight is short. When disturbed it contents itself with flying two or three paces farther off. Its habits are solitary." (Lesson.) CuTelet. [NECTARINTILE.] Dieaum. Bill pointed, bent, of the length of the head, depressed and widened at the base.