YELLOW OR ORANGE CONSPICUOUS 543 



Warbler is comparatively little known. Its shyness and 

 its quiet way of slipping from tree to tree, keeping well 

 out of reach in the conifers, makes any extensive obser- 

 vation of its habits diffi- 

 cult. On the Placer- 



ville-Tahoe stage route, 



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bird sing 

 tantaliz- 

 l)ses of him 

 ps of tlie 

 and dee 

 brush ahmg the road- 

 si(K' : but. seeming 

 to know intuitively 

 wlienever we made 

 a stop to study him, he wctuld instantly end his thin 

 little song and vanish among the green leaves. 



669. Hf.kmit Wakbi.kk. 



" Wil/i her btak full of cobnebs. 



