FAMILY MniotiltidcB 



where from sea level to high mountains, but 

 is most often found in second growth woods, 

 and is particularly abundant on brush-covered 

 hillsides, along woods roads and about the 

 edges of old fields in the lower branches of the 

 trees. It is the earliest of the warblers to 

 come north in the spring, appearing in the 

 northern part of its range by the first of 

 March. 



The lutescent warbler is the plainest of all 

 our western warblers and lacks any distinc- 

 tive markings. It is an olive gi-een bird above 

 and pale olive yellow below, with yellowish 

 eye ring and a dull orange patch on crown, 

 which is covered by tips of adjoining feathers. 

 Its very plainness together with its beautiful 

 song, a long, well-sustained trill of a dozen 

 or more notes, w^ll distinguish it from any 

 other w^arbler. The song is uttered rapidly 

 and ends either in an ascending or descending 

 scale. The nest is placed on the ground at 

 the foot of a bush, usually in deep woods on 

 a hillside. 



^. Black-throated gray warbler, Den- 



droica nigrescens . 4.40 



Distribution: From British Columbia to 



Mexico and from the Roc :y Mountains to 



the Pacific Coast. Abundant summer resi- 



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