THE LUTESCENT WARBLER. __ 175 
may be rendered graphically somewhat as follows: O-o-d-d-i-i-é-¢-é-é-é-é 
wichy, wichy, wichy. 
In the brush and under alarm these birds utter a brusque, metallic 
scolding note, which is perfectly distinctive locally, altho it much resembles 
that of the Oporornis group East. By this mark alone may the mere greenish 
female be certainly discerned. 
Lutescent Warblers abound thruout western Washington, and easterly, 
when the Cascades are well passed, as upon the Pend d’ Oreille. Jungle 
of any kind suits 
them, whether it 
be a thicket of 
young firs at Ta- 
coma, an  over- 
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- Taken near Tacoma. Photo by J. 1. Bowles. 
ture may be taken NEST AND EGGS OF LUTESCENT WARBLER. 
up into a_ bush. 
The female is a close sitter, but 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, you understand, is quite the 
subtlest and most baffling form of revenge which a bird may compass in the 
case of an odlogist anxious to identify his find. 
