Forehead, all the upper surface and the tail-feathers velvety brownish black; the occiput and back of the neck stained with ferruginous brown; primaries and secondaries dark brown at the base and at the tip, the intermediate space buff, forming a conspicuous band across the wing when expanded; feathers of the throat white, edged all round with black, giving the throat a striated appearance; abdomen and flanks ferruginous brown; under tail-coverts black, irregularly crossed with bars of buff; bill and feet blackish brown. The figures represent the bird in different positions of the natural size. [Illustration: CLIMACTERIS PICUMNUS: _Temm._ _J. & E. Gould del et lith._ _C. Hullmandel Imp._ ] CLIMACTERIS PICUMNUS, _Temm._ White-throated Tree-Creeper. _Certhia picumnus_, Ill. _Climacteris picumnus_, Temm. Pl. Col. 281. fig. 1.—Vig. and Horsf. in Linn. Trans., vol. xv. p. 295. _New Holland Nuthatch_, Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 78. _Barred-tailed Honey-eater_, Ib. p. 179.? _Certhia leucoptera_, Lath. Ind. Orn. Supp., p. xxxvi.? _Le Dirigang_, Vieill. Ois. Dor., tom. ii. p. 127.? _Dirigang Creeper_, Lath. Gen. Syn. Supp., vol. ii. p. 106.?—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 260.? _Dirigang Honey-eater_ and var. A., Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 182—183.? _The Common Creeper_, Lewin, Birds of New Holl., pl. 25. The range of this species is as widely extended as that of the _Climacteris scandens_, being a common bird in New South Wales and the intervening country, as far as South Australia: the precise limits of its habitat northward have not been ascertained; but it does not form part of the Fauna of Western Australia.