BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER. 
636. Mniotilta varia. 5% inches. 
Male, heavily streaked with black below; female, with 
only a few streaks on the sides. 
These Warblers are usually known as Black and 
White Creepers because of their habit of creeping along 
the limbs and branches of trees. They are abundant in 
northern United States, being found in open woods, 
swamps and often in parks, gleaning insects and grubs 
from crevices in the bark. 
Song.—aA weak, thin, wiry “tsee, tsee, tsee.” 
Nest.—Of grasses and strips of bark on the ground 
at the foot of a stump or tree trunk or beside a rock; 
they lay four or five eggs, white with a wreath of red- 
dish brown around the large end (.65 x .55). 
Range.—Kastern N. A., breeding from Virginia and 
Louisiana north to Labrador and Hudson Bay; win- 
ters in northern South America. 
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