92 WARBLERS 



BELL'S VIREO 

 Vireo belli belli. Case 6, Fig. 65 



Smallest of our Vireos; crown ashy, lores and eye-ring whitish. 



L. 4i- 



Range. Mississippi Valley; nests from Texas to northwestern 

 Indiana and South Dakota; winters in the tropics. 



Resembles the White-eye in habits, notes, and choice of 

 haunts, but, according to Goss, its notes are not so harsh 

 and emphatic. 



WOOD WARBLERS. FAMILY MNIOTILTID.E 



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BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER 

 Mniolilta varia. Case 6, Fig. 57 



The female is less conspicuously striped than the male, but 

 both are quite unlike any of our other birds. L. 5 J. 



Range. Nests from Georgia and Louisiana to Canada; winters 

 from Florida southward. 



Washington, abundant T. V., less common S. R., Apl. 8- 

 Oct. 18. Ossining, common S. R, Apl. 18-Oct. 1. Cambridge, 

 very common S. R., Apl. 25-Sept. 5- N. Ohio, common T. V., 

 a few S. R., Apl. 22-Sept. 26. Glen Ellyn, common T. V., Apl. 

 28-May 28; Aug. 11-Sept. 27. SE. Minn., common T. V., un- 

 common S. R., Apl. 23-Oct. 12. 



This species and the three Nuthatches are our only 

 birds that creep down as well as up; but the Nuthatches 

 wear no body stripes and are otherwise too unlike the 

 Creeper to be confused with him. The Downy Wood- 

 pecker 'hitches' himself upward advancing by jerks; 

 the Brown Creeper, true to its name, creeps. The nest 

 is built on the ground and the white, brown-marked eggs 

 are laid in April in the South, in May in the North. 



