BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER, OR BLACK 

 AND WHITE CREEPER 



Upper parts black streaked with white; head, wings and 

 tail nearly all black; sides streaked with black and white; white 

 line through the eye and on top of the head ; under parts white. 

 Length, five and one-half inches. 



Nest, usually on the ground at the base of a tree, stump or 

 rock, made of strips of bark, grass and rootlets. Eggs, four to 

 five, white, spotted with reddish-brown, .65 x .54 inches. 



On account of several points of resemblance, this bird is 

 classed with the Warblers; but because of some habits it is 

 often called a Creeper, It seldom alights ok the branch of a tree, 

 but like the Creepers, it zigzags up and down the trunk - 

 or hangs from the under side of a limb with perfect ease. 

 It has the Creeper habit too of flitting fcom tree to tree after 

 beginning at the base and working its way upward. 



It lives in the woods that it may readily get its food, which 

 consists of the small insects, their larvae and eggs, found on 

 forest trees. Not having a strong bill lik^ the Woodpeckers, it 

 cannot pierce the bark or wood, therefore it contents itself 

 with what it can find upon the surface to eat. Peering into 

 the crevices of the bark, it spies out its prey and destroys 

 thousands of tree-pests daily. So busy is it about this work that 

 it seldom stops a moment. For the help it thus renders in pre- 

 serving the forests, this little bird deserves the kindest treat- 

 ment. 



It is a shy bird and one difficult to observe carefully 

 because of its habit of dodging to the opposite side of the tree 



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