AMERICAN WARBLERS. 27 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Yellow Red—poll (Dmdraeaz palmarum) 
     
     and the Pine—creeping Warbler (Dmdrwca pz'flus) 
     
     are early arrivals also. They are rare birds here, 
     
     however. We see the yellow-plumed Pine-creeper 
     
     very rarely in early spring, as it goes north to 
     
     nest. We have only observed the Yellow Red- 
     
     poll in the autumn on the barrens of Prince 
     
     County. 
     
    

    
     With the first days of June the Warblers 
     
     arrive in force. The bursting leaf then spreads 
     
     its tender greenness, and summer’s sunny‘ glory 
     
     rests on the wood-land which for two or three 
     
     short months is to be their glad home. The 
     
     Black-and-White Creeper (Mm'otilta zraria) runs 
     
     over the trunks of trees, searching its food like 
     
     a true “Creeper,” uttering the most tenderly whis- 
     
     pered little ditty of a song. Its color is described 
     
     by its name, being streaked black and white. It 
     
     nests with us, and, strangely enough for a persist- 
     
     ent tree-climber, places its nest on the ground. 
     
    

    
     The Blue Yellow-back sometimes is here early 
     
     in May. The Bay-breasted and Black-poll 
     
     Warblers are not common, a few being seen pass- 
     
     ing north to nest. 
     
    

    
     The Yellow, or Summer Warbler (Dena’rwca