FIBLD KEY TO THE LAND BIRDS. 4] 
101. RED-EYED VIREO. Vireo olivaceus. — 
Length, 64 inches. Greenish gray above ; underparts 
and a line above the eye white; eye red; no light 
wing bars. 
102. PHILADELPHIA VIREO. Vireo phitla- 
delphicus. — Length, 43 inches. Similar to the Red- 
eye, but pale yellow underneath. 
103. WARBLING VIREO. Vireo gilvus. — 
Length, 5? inches. Similar to Red-eye, but paler and 
more brownish in color; no light wing bars. 
104. YELLOW-THROATED VIREO. Vireo 
flavifrons. — Length, 6 inches. Olive gray on head 
and back, fading to gray on tail coverts ; light parts 
of head yellow, fading to white towards the belly ; 
two white bands on the wing. 
105. WHITE-EYED VIREO. Vireo nove- 
boracencis. — Length, 54 inches. Similar to the 
Yellow-throat, but eyes and throat white. 
106. BLUE-HEADED VIREO. Vireo solita- 
rius. — Length, 5$ inches. Bluish gray on head and 
neck; greenish gray on back; a white band from the 
bill to and around the eye; throat and belly white ; 
two light bars on wing. 
WOOD WARBLERS. — Mniotiltidae. 
—~-.. Bint. — Slender, pointed, but not 
<<e hooked. 
Foop. — Insects, which they busily 
hunt from tree to tree. 
Small woodland birds, often bright and handsomely 
colored. A few species stay in summer to breed here, 
but most pass through, breeding far to the north, and 
returning in the fall to winter in the tropics. 
10%. BUACK AND WHITE CREEPER. 
Mniotilta varia.— Length, 5 inches. | White, 
streaked and marked with black. Hunts woodpecker- 
