THE LUTESCENT WARBLER. 



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may be rendered grapliically soniewliat as follows : 0-o-a-a-i-i-c-e-e-e-e-c 

 zinchy, zv-ichy, wichy. 



In the brush and under alarm these birds utter a Ijrusquc, metallic 

 scolding note, which is perfectly distinctive locally, altho it much resembles 

 that of the Oporoniis group East. By this mark alone may the mere greenish 

 female be certainly discerned. 



Lutescent Warblers abound thruont western Washington, and easterly, 

 when the Cascades ai-e \\e\] |)assed, a'^ upon the Pend d' Oreille. Jungle 

 of an_\- kind suits 

 them, whether it 

 be a thicket of 

 young firs at Ta- 

 coma, an i)\'er- 

 grown burn at 

 Snoqualmie, a 

 willow swamp in 

 Yakima County, 

 or a salmon-berry 

 tangle on De- 

 struction Island. 

 Nests are of dead 

 grasses well knit- 

 ted and sunk flush, 

 with the ground, 

 or below it, in 

 some moss bed. 

 at the base of a 

 bush, or on some 

 sloping hillside. 

 Rarely the struc- 

 ture may be taken 

 up into a bush. 



The female is a close sitter, l)Ut once flushed shows implacable resentment. 

 She summons her mate to assist in the gentle art of exorcism, or else turns 

 the tables and deserts outright. The latter, von understand, is quite the 

 subtlest and most baffling fcirm of revenge which a bird may compass in the 

 case of an oologist anxious to identif\- his find. 



Taken jtcar Tacoma. Photo by J. H. Doivles. 



NEST AND EGGS OF LUTESCENT W.VRBLER. 



