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winters from Lower California to northern Southern America. It appears 

 in southern California the last of March ; southern Arizona earlj^ in April 

 northern Colorado the middle of May; northern Montana the last of May 

 at Beaverton, Oregon, May i8, 1885; Chelan, Wash., May 21, 1896 

 Burrard Inlet, B. C, June 2, 1885; Chilliwack, B. C June 8, 1888. 



SUMMER WARBLER ON NEST 

 Photographed by Maunsell S. Crosby, Rhinebeck, N. Y. 



A Black and White Creeper Family 



By GORDON BOIT WEI^LMAN, Maiden. Mass. 



With photographs from nature by the author 



ylMONG the large number of nests I found last spring, the most inter- 

 jI~\^ esting of all was that of a Black and White Warbler. I was passing 

 through the oak grove where her nest was finally built, one after- 

 noon in late May, when I first saw her. She was carrying a straw from 

 place to place, trying to find a good foundation on which to start her 

 home. 



After about fifteen minutes' waiting, I made up my mind she had found 

 the right place; for she had spent some time under the edge of a projecting 

 ledge, picking up the leaves with her feet and bill, and had finally gone. 



