AMERICAN VVAKJ3LEKS. 429 



Frequents woodlands; food, chiefly or wholly 

 fruit and the sweet of flowers. Flight, 

 strong-, direct and darting. Song, a series 

 of low. cackling notes. Nests, in trees, 

 domed but irregular in form. 



AMERICAN WARBLERS. 



Small birds, less than six inches long, 

 confined to the continent of America and 

 adjacent islands. Food, chiefly insects. Eggs, 

 white or greenish, spotted with brown of 

 varying shades. 



489. BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER. 



Medium, 5.25, black and white in 

 stripes, crown divided by a white line; bill 

 and wings, long, fig. 339; female duller. 

 Breeds in eastern N. A. from Va. north to 

 Hudson Bay; winters, from Gulf States, 

 Bahamas and West Indies to northern S. A.; 

 south in Sept., north in late April. Fre- 

 quents open woodlands, creeping with a 

 sideling jerky motion about trees. Song, a 

 sharp ive-see, given five or six times, a 



