

PINE-CREEPING WARBLER. 



with olive green on the back; breast dirty white, or slightly 

 yellowish. The bill in both is truly that of a Warbler; and the 

 tongue slender as in the Motacilla genus, notwithstanding the 

 habits of the bird. 



The food of these birds is the seeds of the pitch pine, and va- 

 rious kinds of bugs. The nest, according to Mr. Abbot, is sus- 

 pended from the horizontal fork of a branch, and formed out- 

 wardly of slips of grape-vine bark, rotten wood, and caterpil- 

 lars webs, with sometimes pieces of hornets nests interwoven ; 

 and is lined with dry pine leaves, and fine roots of plants. The 

 eggs are four, white, with a few dark brown spots at the great 

 end. 



These birds, associating in flocks of twenty or thirty indivi- 

 duals, are found in the depth of the pine Barrens; and are easily 

 known by their manner of rising from the ground and alighting 

 on the body of the tree. They also often glean among the top- 

 most boughs of the pine trees, hanging, head downwards, like 

 the titmouse. 



