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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1862 (1860s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Groombridge and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ir. 158 ANISODACTYLI. Family CEBTHIIBjE. (Bonaparte.) Genus Tichodroma. (Illiger.) Generic Characters.—Beak very long, slightly arched, slender,cylindrical, angular at its base, and depressed at its point.Nostrils basal, naked, pierced horizontally, half closed by anarched membrane. Feet with three toes in front, the externalattached at its base to the middle toe by a membrane; thehind toe carrying a very long claw. Tail round, with theshafts of the quills feeble. Wings with the first primaryshort, the second and third tapering, the fourth, fifth, andsixth the longest. WALL CHEEPER. Tichodroma muraria. Tichodroma muraria, Illiger. alpina, Koch. phcenicoptera, Temminck. Certhia muraria, Gmelin. TicJiodrome echelette, Of the French. Gemeiner Mauerlaufer, Of the Germans. Picchio murajolo, Savi. Specific Characters.—Two round spots on the inner web of thefirst four true primaries, and one upon the fifth; the basal halfof all the true primaries, except the first, and of the secondaries
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- wmmiijM ff llll,,. l cr; WALL CREEPER. 159 rick crimson. Length six inches and a half; carpus to tip threeinches and three quarters; tarsus nine lines; hind toe and clawone inch; beak one inch and one fifth. This beautiful bird, so well known to the alpinetraveller, is common in Switzerland, Spain, and Italy.It is a southern bird, frequenting the rocky parts ofthe warmer countries of Europe. It is found in Franceand the south of Germany, and is not rare in thehighest Alps in the Tyrol. It occurs also in Bohemiaand Silesia, and is included by Count Miihle amongthe birds of Greece, and hence it ranges to India,being mentioned by Dr. Leith Adams as occurring inCashmere, by the sides of rivers and streams in rockyand precipitous places. It does not appear ever in flocks anywhere, beinggenerally found solitary or in pairs. When the roughweather of autumn sets in, it is driven from the highmountains, and appears about the valleys and mountaintowns during the winter months. In the spring i

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