ae THE ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. 
the help she will get out of him at best will be sympathy and song. When 
it comes to real work, like nest building, she must do it. He will graciously 
advise as to the situation, some horizontal branch of fir or pine, from six to 
fifty feet high, and from three to twenty feet out. He will even accompany 
her on her laborious trips after nesting material, cooing amiable nothings, 
and oozing approval at every joint,—but help her—nevaire! 
The nest is quite a substantial affair tho rather roughly put together, 
of fir twigs, rootlets, and moss, with a more or less heavy lining of horse- 
or cow-hair, and other soft substances. The four eggs of greenish blue, 
dotted and spotted with lavender and dark greenish slate, appear especially 
handsome from above, when viewed against the dark brown nest. But, as 
everybody knows, the red fir (Pseudotsuga mucronata) is a tree of moods 
and tenses. You may dangle with impunity from the very tips of the 
branches of some fir trees, while a step from the trunk is fatal in others of 
the same general appearance. The Tanagers are quite as apt to patronize 
the brittle kind. 
No. 7o. 
ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. 
A. O. U. No. 646. Helminthophila celata (Say). 
Description.—Adult male: Above ashy olive-green, clearing and brighter 
on rump; crown largely ochraceous but color partly veiled by olive tips of 
feathers; wings and tail fuscous with some olive edging; below greenish-yellow, 
dingy, or vaguely streaked with blue on breast and sides. Adult female: Similar 
to male but duller, with ochraceous crown-patch restricted or wanting. Jm- 
mature: Without ochraceous crown; more ashy above; duller below save that 
abdomen is white; eyelids often whitish. Length about 5.00 (127); wing 2.40 
(61) ; tail 1.95 (49.5); bill .42 (10.7); tarsus .70 (17.8). 
Recognition Marks.—Small warbler size; ochraceous (“orange”) crown- 
patch distinctive from all except H. c. lutescens, which is the common bird; 
duller. See next (sub) species. 
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Nesting.— Not known to nest in Washington but may do so. As next. 
General Range.—Summer resident in western British America and Alaska 
(save in Pacific coast district), south thru Rocky Mountain district to New 
Mexico; migrating across Central States and casually(?) New England, Middle 
Atlantic States, Pacific States, etc., to Mexico. 
Range in Washington.—Probably common migrant but passing undistin- 
guished among more abundant /utescens. 
Authorities.—Bowles and Dawson, Auk, Vol. XXV., Oct. 1908, p. 483. 
Specimens.—Bowles. Prov. P. 
