WESTERN BIRDS Warbler 



uniform coloring of olive-green, relieved only by indis- 

 tinct stripings on the under parts, a light eye-ring and 

 stripe extending from bill to above eye; and an orange 

 crown patch, which is not always very pronounced, espe- 

 cially in the female, and lacking in young. As it flits 

 about in the tree-tops there are no pronounced markings 

 to differentiate it. 



It is a bird of central North America, coming south 

 locally in the Rocky Mountains to New Mexico ; winter- 

 ing in the Gulf and South Atlantic States to South Caro- 

 lina and south through Mexico, being seen in many 

 localities as a passing migrant, only. 



GENUS VEEMIVOEA: LUTESCENT 

 WARBLER. 



Lutescent Warbler: Vermivora celata lutescens. 

 FAMILY— WOOD WARBLERS. 



In the west are two subspecies of the Orange-crowned; 

 one, the Lutescent, differing in being a more pronounced 

 yellow, the young having dull wing-bars, and the Dusky 

 which is darker and breeds on the Santa Barbara Islands, 

 and visits the mainland after the breeding season. 



The Lutescent breeds from Alaska to the mountains 

 of Los Angeles County, California ; wintering from south- 

 ern California and Arizona, southward. 



They are friendly little sprites and are the first of the 

 spring migrants to visit my yard, where they forage, 

 mostly, among the vines on the ground and the low 

 shrubs, unmindful of my presence. Sometimes they 

 hang, upside down like Bush-tits, or Chickadees, from 

 the end of a pepper spray, searching out scales, or tiny 

 insect life. Never have I seen any crown patch. They 

 are just nondescript like midgets that one knows are 



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