. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 112 BIRDS OF AMERICA to the scored trunks and gnarled boughs of the forest kings; some peep from the thicket, the coppice, the impenetrable mantle of shrubbery that decks tiny watercourses, playing at hide-and-seek with all comers; others more humble still descend to the ground, where they glide with pretty, mincing steps and affected turning of the head this way and that, their delicate flesh-tinted feet just stirring the layer of withered leaves with which a past season carpeted the ; BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER Mniotilta varia {Litnurus)
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 112 BIRDS OF AMERICA to the scored trunks and gnarled boughs of the forest kings; some peep from the thicket, the coppice, the impenetrable mantle of shrubbery that decks tiny watercourses, playing at hide-and-seek with all comers; others more humble still descend to the ground, where they glide with pretty, mincing steps and affected turning of the head this way and that, their delicate flesh-tinted feet just stirring the layer of withered leaves with which a past season carpeted the ; BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER Mniotilta varia {Litnurus) A. O. U. N'uml)er 636 See Color Plate gj Other Names.— Black and White Creeper; Blue and White Striped or Pied Creeper; Black and White Creeping Warbler; Creeping Warbler; Striped War- bler ; Varied Creeping Warbler; Whitepoll Warbler. General Description.— Length, 5l< inches. Plum- age, black and white in stripes. Bill, shorter than head and very slender; wings, long and pointed; tail, even or very slightly forked, the feathers rather narrow. Color.—Adult Male: Crown with a broad center stripe of white and two still broader lateral stripes of black, slightly glossed with blue; rrst of upper parts ( wing- and tail-feathers), slightly glossy blue- black, the back and shoulders streaked zvith white, mid- dle and greater wing-coverts, broadly tipped with white (forming two conspicuous bands'), and inner wing-quills, broadly edged with white; secondaries and primaries, grayish black narrowly edged with gray; middle tail- feathers, black centrally, gray laterally, the gray broader; other tail-feathers, grayish-black narrowly edged with gray, the two outermost with a large space of white on inner web, and all with inner webs edged with white; eye-ring and a broad stripe above the eyes, white; below this an elongated patch of slightly glossy blue-black covering lores and sides of head ; a broad white cheek stripe; under parts, mainly white, but throat usually black; si
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