WARBLERS 487 



§§. Under parts not streaked or spotted with black \ under parts 



spotted or streaked with rufous brown. 

 ?. Crown chestnut. Yellow Palm Warbler. 

 v.. Crown not chestnut. 



a^. Tail fuscous; inner web of tail feathers yellow; under parts 



bright yellow ; forehead yellow. Yellow Warbler. 

 a^. Inner webs of tail feathers not yellow; a yellowish eye ring; 

 under parts yellow, washed with brownish. Yellow Palm 

 Warbler, (immature). 



Genus MNIOTILTA Vieillot. 



/ 

 636. Mniotilta varia {lAnw.^ . Black and White Warbler; 



Black and White Creeping Warbler; Black and White 



Creeper. 



Plumage of adult male : upper parts streaked with black and white ; a 

 white line through crown bordered by black ; wings black with white band ; 

 tail black with white patches on inner webs of outer feathers ; throat and 

 upper breast black, sometimes streaked with white ; sides and breast more or 

 less streaked with black and white. Middle of belly usually white. 

 Plumage of adult female : sides washed with brownish ; less strongly 

 streaked below but very similar indeed to the male, though in most cases 

 readily distinguished. Immature plumage : streaked with brownish above 

 and washed with same on throat and sides ; obscurely streaked below with 

 grayish black, otherwise in general like adults. Wing 2.75 ; tail 2.00. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States, west to the Plains ; breeding from 

 North Carolina, central Texas and Kansas northward to Newfoundland, 

 Hudson Bay and Fort Norman Mackenzie, and rarely breeding in Colorado 

 and California; wintering in the Greater Antilles, Mexico and Central 

 America. 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; fairly common summer resident, (John- 

 son). Aroostook; found locally throughout the County but seemingly not 

 especially common, (Knight). Cumberland; common summer resident, 

 (Mead). Franklin; common summer resident, (Swain). Hancock; quite 

 common summer resident, both inland and on the wooded islands of the 

 coast, but withal very local, (Knight). Kennebec; quite common summer 

 resident, (Gardiner Branch), Knox; summer resident, (Norton). Oxford; 

 breeds commonly, (Nash). Penobscot; very common migrant, fairly com- 

 mon summer resident, local, (Knight). Piscataquis; common summer resi- 

 dent, (Whitman). Sagadahoc; common migrant, (Spinney). Somerset; 

 common summer resident, (Morrell) ; common but local in the northern 

 woods, (Knight). Waldo; summer resident, found even on the wooded 

 islands, local., (Knight). Washington; common summer resident, (Board- 

 man). York; very common summer resident, (Adams). 



