PIXE-CREEPING WARBLER. 
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(,(. disturbed, flying up, and clinging to the trunks 
1 '■he trees. As I advanced towards the south, it 
^l^paiue more numerous. Its note is a simple reiterated 
p‘^"P> continued for four or five seconds. 
ijlj'“*iesby first figured and described tins bird ; but so 
Perfectly, as to produce among succeeding writers 
confusion, and many mistakes as to what particular 
f] ® "'as intended. Edn ards has supposed it to be the 
’•a **, "higed yellow warbler ! Latham has supposed 
j.^thcr species to bo meant; and the worthy Mr 
“"ant has been led into the same mistakes ; describing 
"lale of one species, and the female of another, as 
j “ "lale and female pine-creeper. Having shot and 
y^“"iined great numbers of these birds, I am enabled 
t| “'car iip these difficulties by the following descrip- 
"Inch will be found to be (mrrcct. 
Ic “c pine-cree])iug warbler is five and a half inches 
and nine inches in extent ; the whole upper parts 
y ? "1 a rich gTceii olive, with a considerable tinge of 
tap > throat, sides, and breast, yellow ; wings and 
Uj ’ brown, with a slight (aist of bluish, the former 
y 'l[hed with two bars of white, slightly tinged with 
tail, forked, and edged with ash; the three 
(jjj “tior feathers, marked near the tip with a broad 
hh’ "bite ; middle of the belly and vent-feathera 
. The female is brou'u, tinged with olive green 
'py he back; breast, dirty white, or slightly yellowish, 
t. * hill in both is truly that of a warbler ; and tho 
slender, as in the motacilla genus, notwith- 
.i"’"g the habits of the bird, 
pi ■*hc food of these birds is the seeds of the pitch 
^0 M various kinds of bugs. The nest, according 
ap ‘c Abbot, is suspended from the horizontal fork of 
^J^'ich, and formed outwardly of slips of grape-vine 
hm ’ wood, and caterpillar’s webs, with somc- 
h'it? hornet’s nests interwoven ; and is lined 
pine leaves, and fine roots of plants. Tho 
fito!.**^** four, white, with a few dark brown spots at 
n, 
S^cat end. 
®se birds, associating in flocks of twenty or thirty 
