WOOD WAIIIU.I 333 



Ranyt. Interior of North America, from TexM north to Minnesota, wmt 

 to Illinois. 



. pensile, of atrip* of bark ami plant fiber* firmly and smoothly Inter- 

 im. -.1 with finer grasses, eU-., in l-u.-ln-n or low tree*. Kyy*, four to 

 six, white, with a few specks of black, umber, or rufou-brwn at the larger 

 < IK), -66 x -50. 



This is a common bird in its range, and is locally not uncommon 

 as far east as Illinois. "In tlu-ir f"l, hnliits, and actions they are 

 very similar to the White-eyed. Their call- and alarm-notes are not 

 quite so harsh, and their song is delivered in a less emphatic manner ; 

 an indescribable sputtering, that dott not rank it high in the musical 

 scale " (Ooss). 



The BAHAMA HOMEY CREEPER (6S5. Catrtba bahatntMti) waa found by 

 Dr. Wiinli-inann in January, 1858, on Indian K-y, MiuthruxU-rn Florida, but 

 has not, to my knowledge, been taken by nubacquont obnervent. Tin- u[.|-r 

 part* are ttooty black, UK- rump and middle of the under parts yellow, and a line 

 OM r the eye, the throat, and the lower belly are white or whitUh; length 

 about 4-50. 



FAMILY MNIOTILTID^E. WOOD WARBLERS. 



The Wood Warblers are found only in America, and are most numer- 

 ously represented in eastern North America. About one hundred spe- 

 cies are known, of which seventy vi-it the United States, while the 

 remaining thirty are tropical. 



With three or four exceptions they are inhabitants of woodland, 

 but during their migrations may be found in the trees of lawns or 

 orchards. They feed almost exclusively upon insects, and are thus 

 highly migratory, thousands of miles frequently separating their sum- 

 mer and winter hornet. 



The majority are among the last of the spring arrivals; their com- 

 ing caps the climax of the migration, and the first severe frost leaves 

 but few with us. They migrate by night, and are chief among the 

 victims of lighthouses and electric-light towers. When migrating, 

 they are generally found in straggling companies composed of a num- 

 ber of species, which during the day travel slowly through the woods 

 from tree to tree. 



They capture their insect food in a variety of ways. Some species 

 flit actively from branch to branch, taking their pr.-y from the more 

 exposed parts of the twigs and leaves ; others are gleaners, and care- 

 fully explore the under surfaces of leaves or crevices in the hark : 

 while several, like Flycatchers, capture a large jwirt of their food on 

 the wing. As a rule, they are arboreal, but many are thicket-haunt- 

 ing, and some are terrestrial. 



