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KEY TO THE BIRDS OP EASTERN NORTH AMERICA. 



First primarj-, short ; crowu, gray; back, olive; 

 rimip, olive greeu ; tliroat and belly, white ; 

 sides of body, greenish yellow; lores, white; 

 sides of head, gray; wing bars, white. 



Solitary Vireo. 



Vireo soUtarins, and rncfs 

 See No. 475 



First primary, not slion; lores and eye ring, yellow; throat and breast, yel= 

 low; belly, white; wing bars, white. 



Yellow=throated Vireo. 



Vireo flavifrons. 



See No. 474. 



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

 mage, light olive, tinged with asliy on the crowu ; underparts, washed with 

 very pale yellow ; no white wing bars. 



Philadelphia Vireo. 



Vireo philadelphicus. 

 See No. 472. 



FAMILY CCEREBID/E. 



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. 



Cwreha hahamensis. 

 See No. 481. 



