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my earliest spring record and Sept. 25th my latest fall record. In 

 this vicinity it is a common migrant and a few pairs remain to breed. 

 It is interesting to watch one of these creeper-like Warblers as he 

 lights on the lower part of the trnnk of a tree and works up in a 

 jerking manner in a spiral direction along the trnnk and larger 

 limbs till, getting pretty well up, it flies to a neighboring tree and 



BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER ON NEST. 



repeats the movements. It reminds one very much of the Brown 

 Creeper. Not only does this bird attract the eye, but its soft musi- 

 cal song is equally attractive and pleasing to the ear. 



I discovered my first nest of this species in Lewiston June 17, 

 i8g8. While descending a steep bank in a small strip of woods 

 beside a brook, a female flushed from near by under my feet, and 

 after a few minutes' search I found the nest in the edge of some 

 brush at the foot of a small hemlock tree. The nest was loosely con- 



