Identifier: cu31924084820350 (find matches)
Title: Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Nehrling, Henry 1853-1929
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Milwaukee, G. Brumder
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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etophaga Swainson. Three species. 13, Cardellina Dubois. One species. 14, Ergaticns Baird. One species. 15, Basileuterus Cabanis. One species. BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER. Mniotilta varia ViEiLLOT. Plate XI. Fig. 3. ZN THE DENSE and shady woodland regions of the Northern States and NewEngland, this pretty Warbler appears to be more numerous than elsewhere. Wherethe Wood Thrush and the Veery sing their jubilant anthems, where the Towhee uttersits metallic notes, w^here Ovenbirds and Winter Wrens skip over the soft ground adornedwith trailing arbutus, checker-berry, wake-robins, bellworts, smilacina, blood-root, andferns, where the beautiful hepatica flowers soon after the snow leaves the ground, wherenot far away a murmuring brook or a bubbling spring winds its way through theforest, there we most likely may find the Black and white Warbler, or the CreepingWarbler, as our earlier ornithologists called it, a bird that has no end of pretty ways,and which often is surprisingly unsuspecting. X
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<^^MM rf P R O TO N 01A RIA CIT R I) A B A1R D GOLDSANGER.Prothonotary Warbler. BLACK AND WHITB WARBLBR. I6d During the breeding season this bird is found from Texas and Louisiana toWisconsin and New England, and even as far north as Fort Simpson, British America,and from the Atlantic to the Plains. It winters south to Central America and theWest Indies. In south-western Missouri the Black and White Creepers arrive usually late in April,and in central Wisconsin I have never seen them before May 10; usually they becomeabundant when the orchard trees are in full bloom. They are, at least in spring,always seen singly or in pairs; during their fall migration small family groups maybe seen occasionally. Although found frequently in the same flowering trees with otherWarblers they never mingle with them. In their method of securing food they differfrom all our other Warblers. They scramble actively about the trunks and branchesof the trees, much in the manner of the true Creepers (Certbi

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