PERCHING BIRDS 
633a. Least Vikeo. Vireo belli pusillus. 
Range. — Western Mexico, Arizona and southern California. 
This Vireo is slightly smaller and grayer than the last; they are quite com- 
mon in southern Arizona, nesting the same as Bell’s at low elevations in bushes 
or small trees. The eggs cannot be distinguished from those of belli. 
634. Gray Vireo. Vireo vicinior. 
Range.— Southwestern United States from western Texas, southern California 
and Nevada southward. 
This species is grayish above and grayish white below, with 
white eye ring, lores and wing bar. They are not uncommon 
birds in the Huachuca Mts. of southern Arizona, where they 
nest in bushes at low elevations, making the semi-pensile struc- 
tures of woven strips of bark and grasses, lined with fine round 
grasses attached by the rim to a fork and sometimes stayed on 
the side by convenient twigs. Eggs white, specked with brown. 
Size .72 x .53. 
White 
HONEY CREEPERS. Family COEREBID^E 
635. Bahama Honey Creeper Ccereba bahamensis 
Range. — Bahamas, casually to southern Florida and the Keys. 
This peculiar curved-billed species is dark brown above, with the underparts, 
superciliary line and spot at base of primaries, whitish; the rump and a breast 
patch are yellow. They nest at low elevations in bushes or trees usually in 
tangled thickets, making a large dome-shaped nest of grasses, leaves and fibres 
and, during May or June, lay from three to five pale creamy white eggs, speckled 
sparingly all over the surface and more abundantly at the large end with reddish 
orown. Size .65 x .50. 
WARBLERS. Family MNIOTILTlDvE 
Warblers as a family may be classed as the most beautiful, interesting and 
useful birds that we have. With few exceptions, they only return from their 
winter quarters as the trees snoot forth their leaves or flowers, they feed largely 
among the foliage upon small, and mostly injurious, insects. They aie very 
active and always flitting from branch to branch, showing their handsome 
plumage to the best advantage. Their songs are simple but effectively delivered 
and the nests are, of a high order of architecture. 
636. Black and White Warbler. Mnio- 
tilta varia. 
Range. — North America east of the Plains, 
breeding from the Gulf States north to the 
Hudson Bay region; winters from our southern 
borders to South America. 
This striped black and white 
Warbler is usually seen creeping 
about tree trunks and branches 
after the manner of a Nuthatch. 
They are very active gleaners 
and of inestimable value to man. 
They nest on the ground in 
woods or swamps, making their nest of strips 
of bark and grass, placed among the leaves 
usually beside stones, stumps or fallen trees. 
Their three to five eggs are white, finely 
specked and wreathed with reddish brown. 
Size .65 x. 50. Data. — Worcester, Mass., June 
3, 1889. Nest of strips of bark on the ground 
in an old decayed stump. 
White 
Black and W hit % Warbler 
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