Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any bird of the family Certhiid æ and subfamily Tichodromin æ, of which there are several species. The best-known is Tichodroma muraria of Europe, also called
spider-catcher . See cut underTichodroma .
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One would fain live those ornithological days over again, and taste the rapturous joy with which one killed that first nutcracker in the mountain gulley; the first wall-creeper which fluttered down from the precipice hung with icicles; the Temminck's stint -- victim of a lucky shot, late in the evening, on the banks of the reservoir; the ruff, the grey-headed green woodpecker, the yellow-billed
Alone Norman Douglas 1910
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Also see wallcreeper.
January 8, 2011