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74 "The brown Creeper is an extremely active and restless little bird. In winter it associates with the small spotted woodpecker, nut-hatch, titmouse, &c.; and often follows in their rear, gleaning up those insects which their more powerful



bills had alarmed and exposed; for its own slender, incurvated bill seems unequal to the task of penetrating into even the decayed wood; though it may enter into holes, and behind scales of the bark. Of the Titmouse, there are generally present the individuals of a whole family, and seldom more than one or two of the others. As the party advances through the woods, from