THE BLACK-AND-WHITE CREEPER 



The Black-and-White Creeper is a little fellow, smaller than any of 

 your other paper birds ; and you can make him in a twinkle, because all 

 of his markings are on him. 



It will be easy to find the real bird. You can often see him running 

 briskly round and round the trunk of a tree, clinging to its sides like a 

 fly. That is where he looks for his dinner of insects, and he is very busy 

 about it. When you have made your paper bird you will know the' 

 Black-and-White Creeper from any of the other birds that you see on 

 the tree-trunks. 



Although this little bird is not much afraid of you himself, he will 

 carefully hide his nest where he thinks you cannot find it. Sometimes 

 he puts it on the ground and sometimes on a stump, but he makes it of 

 leaves, pieces of bark, and hair, so that it does not show among the other 

 leaves and tree bark. 



The eggs in the nest will be white, covered with red and brown dots. 



The Black-and-White Creeper belongs to the large family of Wood 

 Warblers. 



