_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. 5-1/4.
_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.