reptatory

Updated: May 26, 2025

I had several times seen the little brown creeper clinging to the vertical wall of a tree and preening his plumes after a bath, and it was natural to suppose that his congener, the nuthatch, being also a bird of reptatory habits, would follow the same formula. But not so!

Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser - Our Bird Comrades