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KEY TO THE BIRDS OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



First primary, short ; crown, gray ; back, olive ; 

 rump, olive green ; throat and belly, white ; 

 sides of body, greenish yellow ; lores, white ; 

 sides of head, gray ; wing bars, white. 



Solitary Vireo. 



Vireo solitarins, ami races. 

 See No. 475 



First primary, not short; lores and eye ring, yellow; throat and breast, yel- 

 low ; belly, white ; wing bars, white. 



Yellow-throated Vireo. 



Vireo flamfrons. 



See No. 474. 



First primary, equal to fifth ; lores and orbital ring, dull white ; upper plu- 

 mage, light olive, tinged with ashy on the crown ; underparts, washed with 

 very pale yellow ; no white wing bars. 



Philadelphia Vireo. 



Vireo philadelphicm. 

 See No. 472. 



FAMILY CCEREBID/G. 



Honey Creepers. 



Bill, curved; wing, about 2.50; length, about 4.50. 



Throat, white ; lower breast, yellow ; 

 rump, yellow ; crown and back, slaty 

 black. A Bahama Island species of rare and 

 accidental occurrence in Florida, not re- 

 corded elsewhere in the United States. 



Bahama Honey Creeper. 



Coireba bahamensis, 

 See No. 481. 



