Black-And-White Warbler at Altadena, California
Black-and-White Warbler at Altadena, California.-Records of the Black-and-White Warbler (Mtziotilta waria) in the West are so few in number as to warrant the recording of another positive identification. At 8 a.m. on the morning of October 8, 1942, while at breakfast in our sun porch, an individual of this species which I judged to be a female of the year suddenly appeared on the trunk of a sycamore tree at a distance of less than ten feet. All of the identification marks were plainly noted together with the creeper-like habit, unique in this species of warbler, of scampering around and along the trunk of the tree. The bird was watched for nearly a minute as it gleaned the tree for food and there can be no possibility of error in identification.-J. R. PEMBERTON, Altadena, California, October 24, 1942.
