'Ill-: I.l'TESCENT WARBLER. 



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nia\' be rendered gra])liically soinew hat as fi)llo\vs: 0-o-d-d-i-i-e-e-e-e-e-e 

 zi'icliy. zvicliy, u-ic-liy. 



In tlie brusli and under alarm these birds utter a brus(|ue, metallic 

 scolding note, which is perfectly distincli\e locally, altho it much resembles 

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

 female be certainly discerned. 



Lutescent Warblers alxuind tlirudut western Washington, and easterly, 

 when the Cascades nn- well ])assi.'d, a^ upnu the Peiid d' Oreille. Jungle 

 of any kind suits ^i 



them, whether it 

 be a thicket (if 

 young lirs 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- 

 ture may be taken 

 up into a bush. 



The female is a close sitter, but nnce Hushed shnws implacable resentment. 

 She summons her mate to assist in the gentle art <if exorcistii, or else turns 

 the tables and deserts outright. The latter, you understatid. is quite the 

 subtlest and tnost baffling form of rexcnge wliich a bird may compass in the 

 case of an oologist anxious to identify his fnid. 



-HI- Tacuma. I'hoio by J. H. Bo-.dcs. 



NEST AND EGGS OF LUTESCENT WAUBI.EU. 



