Birds of Oregon and Washington 305 



RED-EYED VIREO. 



(See general characteristics of the Vireo family in the 

 book.) Upper parts, olive-green; same top of head, which 

 is gray bordered on each side by a narrow blackish line, 

 and a white superciliary line; blackish or dusky line through 

 eye (the Warbling Vireo has white line through eye); under- 

 parts, white no yellow tinge. Length, 5.50 to 6.50, 



WESTERN YELLOW-THROAT. 



"Summer resident, east of the Cascade Mountains; found 

 in rye-grass districts and in vicinity of water." (Dawson.) 



See Pacific Yellow-throat in book. The main difference, 

 the Western Yellow-throat has a more lemon-yellow on 

 the throat; the Pacific Yellow-throat, more orange. 



CATBIRD. 



Summer resident and common in Whitman County. 

 Lives in thickets and garden tangles. Its alarm cry very 

 like a cat. Uniform slaty gray, save the head and tail, 

 which are black. The tail is long. Length, 9.00. 



WILLOW THRUSH. 



The common thrush found in Eastern Washington and 

 Oregon; found also in Southeastern Oregon. The Western 

 form of the Veery. 



Above, dull tawny-brown, uniform; below, white; the 

 throat, except in the upper middle, and the breast, tinged 

 with cream-buff, and spotted narrowly and sparingly with 

 wedge-shaped marks of tawny-brown; sides and flanks, 

 more or less tinged with brownish -gray; sides of head, 

 buffy-tinged, with mixed brown. Length, 7.25 to 7.75. 

 Dawson & Bowles. 



