_Certhia familiaris americana. Case 2, Fig. 59_
Tail-feathers with stiffened points, bill slender
and slightly carved. L. 5-3/4.
_Range._ Nests from northern New England and south
along the Alleghanies to North Carolina; winters
south to Florida.
Washington, common W.V., Sept. 22-May 1. Ossining,
tolerably common W.V., Sept. 20-May 7. Cambridge,
common T.V., rather common W.V.. Sept. 25-May 1;
one summer record N. Ohio, common W.V., Oct. 1-May
9. Glen Ellyn, tolerably common W.V., Sept. 15-May
19. SE. Minn., common T.V., uncommon W.V., Sept.
25-Mch. 30.
To see the Brown Creeper is to knew him but so inconspicuous is he that
unless you chance to observe him drop from one to tree near the foot of
another, you may overlook the little figure creeping spirally upward.
Nor are his thin, weak, squeaky call-notes more likely to attract
attention than he is himself. A true bird of the bark, he not only hunts
upon it but builds his nest behind it, laying 5-8 white, brown-spotted
eggs in May.