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PINE-CREEPING WARBLER. 
with olive green on the back; breast dirty white, or slightly 
yellowish. The bill in both is truly that of a Warbler; and the 
tongue slender as in the Motacilla genus, notwithstanding the 
habits of the bird. 
The food of these birds is the seeds of the pitch pine, and va- 
rious kinds of bugs. The nest, according to Mr. Abbot, is sus- 
pended from the horizontal fork of a branch, and formed out- 
wardly of slips of grape-vine bark, rotten wood, and caterpil- 
lars webs, with sometimes pieces of hornets nests interwoven ; 
and is lined with dry pine leaves, and fine roots of plants. The 
eggs are four, white, with a few dark brown spots at the great 
end. 
These birds, associating in flocks of twenty or thirty indivi- 
duals, are found in the depth of the pine Barrens; and are easily 
known by their manner of rising from the ground and alighting 
on the body of the tree. They also often glean among the top- 
most boughs of the pine trees, hanging, head downwards, like 
the titmouse. 
