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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 abun- 

 dant in northern United States, being found in open 

 woods, swamps and often in parks, gleaning insects 

 and grubs from crevices in the bark. 



Song. A 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. Eastern N. A., breeding from Virginia and 

 Louisiana north to Labrador and Hudson Bay; win- 

 ters in northern South America. 



