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Title: Stories about birds of land and water
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893 Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: Hartford (Conn.) : American Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ers reach some distance. THE COMMON TREE-CREEPER. If on the occasion of some summer holiday )-ou go into the woods, and lookwell about you, you are almost sure to see the little tree-creeper. The best way is to sit down on the stump of some fallen tree, and quietlyto watch. By-and-by you will sec a very small brown bird, the smallest we have inEngland, except, perhaps, the dear little wren. He has a short neck, and along, rather curved bill, and a stiff little tail. His foot has three toes in front, and one long one behind, and arc allarmed with rather long claws. The joints roll about loosely, in the same wayas those of the swallow. But as for his daily habits, they are more like thoseof the Avoodpecker. Pie and his family are very useful in clearing trees ofinsects that the swallow cannot get at. They lie snugly hidden under thebark or in cracks, but the bill of the little creeper is sure to find them ; andthough his tongue is not quite like that of the woodpecker, yet he thrusts it
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SUK-UIKns. 74 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. out in the same manner. Its tip is hard and sharp, and can run through theinsect Hke a spear. In the picture you see him at his daily work in the woods. He is chngingwith his sliarp httle claws to the bark of the tree. He has mounted up by anumber of short jerks, and every time he jerked he uttered a shrill small cry.

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