Range. Mississippi Valley; nests from Texas to northwestern Indiana and South Dakota; winters in the tropics.
Resembles the White-eye in habits, notes, and choice of haunts, but, according to Goss, its notes are not so harsh and emphatic.
WOOD WARBLERS. FAMILY MNIOTILTIDÆ
BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER
Mniotilta varia. [Case 6], Fig. 57
The female is less conspicuously striped than the male, but both are quite unlike any of our other birds. L. 5¼.
Range. Nests from Georgia and Louisiana to Canada; winters from Florida southward.
Washington, abundant T.V., less common S.R., Apl. 8-Oct. 18. Ossining, common S.R., Apl. 18-Oct. 1. Cambridge, very common S.R., Apl. 25-Sept. 5. N. Ohio, common T.V., a few S.R., Apl. 22-Sept. 26. Glen Ellyn, common T.V., Apl. 28-May 28; Aug. 11-Sept. 27. SE. Minn., common T.V., uncommon S.R., Apl. 23-Oct. 12.
This species and the three Nuthatches are our only birds that creep down as well as up; but the Nuthatches wear no body stripes and are otherwise too unlike the Creeper to be confused with him. The Downy Woodpecker 'hitches' himself upward advancing by jerks; the Brown Creeper, true to its name, creeps. The nest is built on the ground and the white, brown-marked eggs are laid in April in the South, in May in the North.
PROTHONOTARY WARBLER
Protonotaria citrea. [Case 5], Fig. 29