. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. c nest in the I exposed to intal cavities â the Creeper ^reat caution frland, though â¢. i*s breeding rd. In winter is common in me l^rovinces. s bird, written 1 liuUelin for r soiig, which iiiong the pine er eves and un- sv ; tail broadly aped structure, â¢md lined with |th rufous: Lit a straggler in his " I'.irds IS habits. He he manner as lead of hover- tree. When hottom of the Ins, sometimes interior of a The bird is le blossoming. DLACK AM) wmri-: \\ar);i,i:r.
. A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. c nest in the I exposed to intal cavities â the Creeper ^reat caution frland, though â¢. i*s breeding rd. In winter is common in me l^rovinces. s bird, written 1 liuUelin for r soiig, which iiiong the pine er eves and un- sv ; tail broadly aped structure, â¢md lined with |th rufous: Lit a straggler in his " I'.irds IS habits. He he manner as lead of hover- tree. When hottom of the Ins, sometimes interior of a The bird is le blossoming. DLACK AM) wmri-: \\ar);i,i:r. BLACK .AM) WHITE CREErEK. VAklA. Char. Above, black striped with white, head, wings, and tail mostly black: beneath, white, more or less striped with black. Female and young without stripes on the throat. Length 4'3 ti» 5'2 inches. Xt it. In o))en woodland or jiasture; placed at the tojt of a tree or stump, or at the base of a moss-covered rock, xmietimes in a hole ; made of grass, moss, and shreds of bark, and lined with grass, hair, roots, and vegetable down. i5",,%'/. 4-5; creamy white, thickly spotted with pale reddish brown; X This remarkable bird, allictl to the ("recpcrs, is another rather common summer resident in most parts of the United States, and probably migrates ]iretty far to the north. It arrives in I^ouisiana by the middle of I''e])runry, visits Pennsyl- vania about the second week in .April, and a week later a])])ears in the woo<ls of New Fjigland, jirotracting its stay in those countries till the beginning of October, and lingering on the southern Hmits of the Union a month later, so that it does not appear to be mu<'h affected by the commencement of frost, and probably at this season occasionally feeds on berries. As numbers are observed round Vera Uruz toward the com- mencement of winter, and are described as inhabiting the West India islands, it is probable they pass the extremity <j{ the winter beyond the
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