Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history (1898)
Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889, Holder, Joseph B. (Joseph Bassett), 1824-1888, Prang, Louis, 1824-1909, lithographer, Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884, Wood, J. G. (John George), 1827-1889. Illustrated natural history, National Zoological Park (U.S.), former owner. DSI · New York : Selmar Hess · leaf 244
the sombre-colored bark. Its eyes are wonderfully keen, as it will discern insects of so minute a form that the human eye can hardly perceive them, and it seems to possess some instinctive mode of detecting the presence of its insect prey beneath moss or lichens, and will perseveringly bore through… … COMMON TREE-CREEPER.—Certhia familiaris. tent itself with flitting from tree to tree. Although so timid a bird, the Creeper soon becomes familiarized with those whom it is accustomed to see, provided that they treat it kindly, and will even come to receive food from their hands. In one instance…
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