168 BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER. 
and gnarled boughs of the forest kings; some peep from the thicket, the coppice, the 
impenetrable mantle of shrubbery that decks tiny water-courses, playing at hide-and-seek 
with all comers; others more humble still descend to the ground, where they glide with 
pretty mincing steps and affected turning of the head this way and that, their delicate 
flesh-tinted feet just stirring the layer of withered leaves with which a past season 
carpeted the ground. We may seek Warblers everywhere in their season; we shall find 
them a continual surprise; all mood and circumstance is theirs.”’ 
This beautiful family is divided into the following genera: 
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Mniotilta VIEILLoT. One species. 
Protonotaria Batrp. One species. 
Helinaia AuDUBON. One species. 
Helmitherus RAFINESQUE. One species. 
Helmintophila Ripcway. Eight to ten species. 
Compsothlypis CABANIs. Two species. 
Dendroica Gray. Twenty-four species. 
Seiurus SWAINSON. Three species. 
Geothlypis CaBanis. Six species. 
Icteria VIEILLOT. One species. 
Sylvania NutTaLu. Three species. 
Setophaga Swainson. Three species. 
Cardellina Dugois. One species. 
Ergaticus Batrp. One species. 
Basileuterus CaBaANis. One species. 
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N THE DENSE and shady woodland regions of the Northern States and New 
England, this pretty Warbler appears to be more numerous than elsewhere. Where 
the Wood Thrush and the Veery sing their jubilant anthems, where the Towhee utters 
its metallic notes, where Ovenbirds and Winter Wrens skip over the soft ground adorned 
with trailing arbutus, checker-berry, wake-robins, bellworts, smilacina, blood-root, and 
ferns, where the beautiful hepatica flowers soon after the snow leaves the ground, where 
not far away a murmuring brook or a bubbling spring winds its way through the 
forest, there we most likely may find the BLack AnD WHITE WARBLER, or the CREEPING 
WARBLER, as our earlier ornithologists called it, a bird that has no end of pretty ways, 
and which often is surprisingly unsuspecting. 
