BLACK AND WHITE CREEPING WARBLER 153 



pines. It is one of the commonest of Southern 

 Warblers. 



BLACK AND WHITE CREEPING 

 WARBLER 



Warblers seek their food in a variety of ways, 

 some flitting through the green boughs and 

 gleaning from twigs and leaves, some spending 

 most of their time on or near the 

 ground, others capturing insects 

 on the wing like Flycatchers. The 

 Black-and- White Creeping War- 

 bler gleans over the bark in 

 the fashion 



of 



BLACK AND WHITE 

 CREEPING WARBLER 



Length 5^4 inches 



a Nuthatch or a 

 Creeper, but is 

 more restless 

 and active, ex- 

 ploring every 

 crevice, slipping 

 round and round 

 the tree and 

 one of the first 

 and one of the 



over the larger boughs. It is 



Warblers to arrive in spring, 



commonest and best known representatives of 



the family, the black and white stripes being 



easy to remember. 



The song is something like the scraping of a 

 corn stalk fiddle — feedle-deedle-deedle-dee. Al- 

 though this Warbler seeks its living in trees, the 



