Range.--Pacific coast from Oregon (and Cal. in winter) to British
Columbia.

The nesting habits and eggs of this darker and smaller variety are the
same in all respects as those of the Hutton's Vireo.

633. BELL'S VIREO. _Vireo belli belli._

Range.--Interior of the United States, breeding from Texas to Minnesota
and Dakota.

The nesting habits of this smaller species are just the same as those of
the larger varieties, they suspending their small grass-woven baskets in
the forks of bushes or trees and usually at a low elevation. Their nests
are handsome and compact little structures, being often made almost
wholly of strips of bark lined with very fine grasses. The eggs are
white, specked with reddish brown. Size .70 x .50. Data.--Austin, Texas,
June 16, 1898. Nest of strips of bark, fibres and grasses, neatly woven
and swung from the fork of a low bush, 2 feet from the ground.

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633a. LEAST VIREO. _Vireo belli pusillus._

Range.--Western Mexico, Arizona and southern California.

This Vireo is slightly smaller and grayer than the last; they are quite
common 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 structures 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.

HONEY CREEPERS. Family COEREBIDAE

635. BAHAMA HONEY CREEPER. _Coereba 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,