DIRECTORY TO BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 235 



a. Creeping Warblers. Mniotilta. 



Slender warblers with long, somewhat curved bills, long 

 wings, large feet with the hind toe long; black and white; 

 ancestral home, north-western S. A. 



1. BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER, M. VARIA. 5.25; 

 black and white in stripes ; crown divided by a white line, 

 fig. 309. Female, duller. Breeds in Fig. 309. 



eastern N. A. from Ya. north to Hud- 

 son Bay ; winters from the Gulf States, 

 Bahamas, and West Indies to north- 

 ern S. A. ; north in late April; south 

 in Sep. Common ; frequents open 

 woodlands, creeping with a sidling, 

 jerky motion about trees. Song, a 

 sharp " We-see" given five or six 

 times; a longer, louder lay, much 

 like the ordinary song of the Nash- 

 ville Warbler. Nests on ground near 

 base of a tree, clump of bushes, or 

 rock, usually partly domed with fal- 

 len leaves. 



b. Long-billed Warblers. Neodendroica, 



General form, similar to a, bill stouter, wings shorter, 

 and feet smaller; two wing bands and tail spots on three or 

 four outer tail feathers. Ancestral home, Central America. 



1. YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, N. DOMINICA. 

 5.25; throat, yellow; otherwise white below; pale slaty-blue 

 above; front of crown and markings on sides of head and 

 sides as in fig. 310; line from bill over eye, yellow in front, 

 white behind. Breeds in the Atlantic coast district from Fla. 

 north to Ya., casually to N. Y., Conn., and Mass. ; winters in 

 Fla., Bahamas, and most of the West Indies ; north in March ; 

 south in Aug. and Sep. Occurs in open woodlands, usually 

 in tree tops. Song, a short, low warble. 



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