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Show 314 AVES. It has been thought necessary to separate from the Sitte:e, the XENOPS, Illig.(l) Which only differs in the beak being rather more compressed, and the inferior ridge more convex.(2) ANABATEs, Temm. In which, on the contrary, the superior ridge of t.he beak is some· what convex, a1 m o St ll'ke the beak of a Thru.s h wh1ch has no . emar· · · Th t '1 in some is long and cuneiform, and occas10nally gmat10n. e a1 , ' . . . ( ) worn, a proof that it supports them m chmbmg. 3 SYNALLAXIs, Vieill. A straight beak, but little elongated; very mu:h compressed, slen· der, and pointed; the tail generally long and pomted.(4) . . There are even some of them in which the stems of the tatl-qutlls are very stout, and project beyond the barbs.( 5) Those birds which have received the name of CERTHIA, Lin. Or the Creepers, have an arcuated beak, but that is the only com· mon character they possess. We separate ft·om them in the first place, . 1 CERTHIA, Cuv. The True Creepers, so called from their habit of climbi~g t~ees, like Woodpeckers, in doing which they make use of the.tr tall.as a prop or supporter; they are known by the quills of the tail, w~tch are worn, and terminate in a stiff point, like those of the same btrds. There is one found in Europe, (1) Vieillot has changed this name into Neops. (2) Xenops rutilus, Licht., Col. 72, 2, or Neops rujicauda, VieiU. G~~· 17 0d~ Xerwps Hofmanseggii, Col. 150, 1, Vaill. Prom. 31, 2;-Xenops anabatozde8, ' 150, 2. . d if!COliil (3) .llnabates cristatus, Spix, 84;-.IJ.n. rujifrons, Id. 85, 1 ;-Phdy qr ru ' Id. 75;-Phil. albogularis, Id., 74;-Phil. superciliaris, Id. 7~; perhap.s th;t~e: the .llnabates amaurotis, Tern. Col. 238, 2;-Sphenura stnolata, Spu, ' .llnabates striolatus, Tern. Col. 23, 1. . from (4) Synallaxis ruficapilla, Vieill. Gal. 174, or Parulus rujiceps, Spu, S6, which the Syn. albescens, Tern. Col. 227, 2, and the ct·n erascens, lb ., 3' do notappear 1 311 to me to differ specifically;-Syn. nttilans, Col. ~27, 1;-Syn. tessellata, C~ll J. 1·-Syn. setaria, lb. 2;-Prinia ~'amiliaris, Horsf. Jav. ?-The Fluteur, Valb· k 11' 2, or Malurus africanus, SwainJs' . 111. 170, merely has a somew ha t h'1 gh er ea · (5) Dendrocolaptes sylmellm, Ternm. Col. 72, 1. Vaill. prom. 31, 2. PASSERINJE. 315 C. familiaris, L.; Enl. 681, 1; Naum. 140. (The European Creeper.) A small bird with whitish plumage, spotted with brown above; rump and tail tinged with red. It builds in the hollows of trees, and climbs with great rapidity, seal'Ching fot· insects and larvre in the cracks of the bark, under mosses, Stc.(l) America produces several True Creepers of a large size, called, DENDRoaoLAPTEs, Herm.(2)-Grimpars, Vaill. Whose tail is the same, but their beak is much stronget· and wider.(3) There is even one of them which approaches the Nuthatches in its straight and compressed beak; it might be taken for a Sitta with a worn tail.( 4) The beak of another, twice as long as the head, is only arcuated at the end.(s) That of a third is long, slender and as much arcuated as in Melithreptus. ( 6) TIOHODROMA, Illig.(7) The tail not worn, although they climb along walls and rocks just as the common Creepers do upon trees, but they cling to them (1) Add, C. cinnamomea, Vieill. Ois. Dor. 62, and Galer. 173;-Motacilla spiniwuda, Lath. Syn. II, pl. 52? (2) Derulrocolaptes, the Greek name of the Woodpecker. Vieillot has changed it into DE~nnocoPus, Gal. 175, and applied it to another division. (3) The Picucule, Buff. ( (}racula cayennensis, Gm.; Grac. scandens, Lath. & Sh. )· En!, 621and Vieill. Ois. Dor. 76, to which the Dendroc. decurnanus, Spix, 87, and /akirwtrn, 88, are at least closely allied. Add, the Grand Grimpart, Vaill. 42;Deruirec. tenuirostris, Spix, 91, 2;-D. bivittatus, 90, l;-D. Wagleri, 90, 2;-the Gr. maille, Vaill. 29, 2;-the Grimpart flambe, Vaill. Prom. 30, or Dend. platyr011· tria, Spix, 89?- the Gr. en fume, Vaill. 28. N.B. The Fluteur of Vaill., Afr. 112, is the genus D..&.sYonNrs of Swainson. The Dendrocolaptes Sylviellus, Tern. is his genus SITTA.so:Mus and the Oerthia 11lacu/ata of Wils. III, xix, 3, his genus OxYGLossus. k The Dendroprocurvus, Tern. is the genus XIPJIORHYNCHus, Swains. and the Ta. IJ!Wt, his genus D:r.NnnoPLEX. 60 (4)The Talapiot, Buff.; Orioluspicus, Gm. and Lath.; Graculapicoidu, Sh., Enl. s, or Dendrocolaptes guttatus, Spix, 91, 1. (:)The Nasican, Vaill., Prom,, etc., 24. · d ( ) The Grimpart promerops (Dendrocolaptes procurvua,) Tern. Col. 28 or Den· 7'/alcu~arius, Vieill. Ga1. 175. has ~These b1rds are called Echelette1 in some of the French provinces. Vieillot c anged this name into Picchion, and that of I1liger into PETRODROliU .. |