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Range (Interior of North America) (V)

Interior of North America, from Texas north to Minnesota, east to Illinois.

Nest, pensile, of strips of bark and plant fibers firmly and smoothly interwoven, lined with finer grasses, etc., in bushes or low trees. Eggs, four to six, white, with a few specks of black, umber, or rufous-brown at the larger end, 66 x 50.

This is a common bird in its range, and is locally not uncommon as far east as Illinois. "In their food, habits, and actions they are very similar to the White-eyed. Their call- and alarm-notes are not quite so harsh, and their song is delivered in a less emphatic manner; an indescribable sputtering, that does not rank it high in the musical scale" (Goss).

The BAHAMA HONEY CREEPER (635. Cæreba bahamensis) was found by Dr. Würdemann in January, 1858, on Indian Key, southeastern Florida, but has not, to my knowledge, been taken by subsequent observers. The upper parts are sooty black, the rump and middle of the under parts yellow, and a line over the eye, the throat, and the lower belly are white or whitish; length about 4.50.