ROCK-CREEPER.
TICHODROMA MURARIA {Linn.).
Certhia muraria, Linn. S. N. i. p. 184 (1766).
Tichodroma muraria, Naum. v. p. 421 ; Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. ix ;
Dresser, iii. p. 207.
Tichodrome échelette, Grimpereau de murailles, Pic
d’araignées, French ; Mauerläufer, German ; Ar after o,
Pela rocas, Spanish.
Two instances only of the occurrence of this remarkable
and very beautiful bird in our country have hitherto
been recorded; with regard to the first of these I quote
from a most interesting correspondence between Robert
Marsham of Stratton-Strawless in Norfolk and Gilbert
White of Selborne, communicated to the Transactions
of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society by the
Rev. H. P. Marsham and Professor Bell, and published
in the Journal of that Society, vol. ii. pp. 133-195 : at
p. 180 of the volume to which I refer, under the date
of October 30, 1792, Marsham writes to White as
follows :—“ My man has just now shot me a bird, which
was flying about my house: I am confident I have
never seen its likeness before. But, on application to
Wilughby, I conclude it is the Wall-Creeper, or Spider-
R O C K - C R E E P E R .
Tichodroma muraria (Linn.).