3H 



BLACK AND WHITE CREEPER. 



wedged, the feathers neatly pointed, the four outer ones on 

 each side nearly all white ; sides, thighs, and vent, pale yellow 

 ochre, streaked with black ; upper mandible, brown ; lower, 

 bluish white ; eyelids furnished with strong. black hairs; legs 

 and feet, very large, and of a pale flesh colour. 



The female has the black crescent more skirted with gray, 

 and not of so deep a black. In the rest of her markings, the 

 plumage differs little from that of the male. I must here 

 take notice of a mistake committed by Mr Edwards in his 

 " History of Birds," vol. vi. p. 123, where, on the authority of 

 a bird dealer of London, he describes the calandre lark (a 

 native of Italy and Kussia) as belonging also to North 

 America, and having been brought from Carolina. I can say 

 with confidence, that, in all my excursions through that and 

 the rest of the southern States, I never met such a bird, nor 

 any person who had ever seen it. I have no hesitation in 

 believing that the calandre is not a native of the United 

 States. 



BLACK AND WHITE CBEEPER. (CertMa maculala) 



PLATE XIX.— Fig. 3. 



Edw. pi. 300.— White Poll Warbler, Arct. Zool. 402, No. 293.— Le Figuier varie, 

 Buff. v. 305. -Lath. ii. 488.— Turton, i. p. 803.— Peale's Museum, No. 7092. 



SYLVICOLA VARIA.— Jabdine.* 



Sylvia varia, Bonap. St/nop. p. 81. — Le Mniotilla varie, Mniotilla varia, Vieill. 

 Gall, des Ois. pi. 169. 



This nimble and expert little species seldom perches on 

 the small twigs, but circumambulates the trunk and larger 

 branches, in quest of ants and other insects, with admirable 

 dexterity. It arrives in Pennsylvania from the south about 

 the 20th of April ; the young begin to fly early in July ; and 

 the whole tribe abandon the country about the beginning of 



* This forms the type of Vieillot's Mniotilla, and will, perhaps, show 

 the scansorial form in Sylvicola. — Ed. 



