YELLOW OR ORANGE CONSPICUOUS — 535 
652. YELLOW WARBLER. — Dendroica estiva. 
Famity: The Wood Warblers. 
Length: 4.50-5.25. 
Adult Male: Upper parts bright yellowish olive-green, brightest on 
rump; forehead bright yellow; front of crown sometimes tinged 
with orange ; wing-feathers edged with yellow ; under parts yellow ; 
breast and belly streaked with rufous, 
Adult Female: Upper parts yellowish green, darker than in the male ; 
lighter on forehead and rump ; under parts paler and duller, usually 
unstreaked. 
Young: Similar to adult female. 
Geographical Distribution: North America, except Alaska and South- 
western United States; migrating to Central America and Northern 
South America. 
California Breeding Range: In upper Sonoran zone chiefly, and else- 
where throughout the State. 
Breeding Season: April, May, and June. 
Nest : Compact cup-shaped structure ; made of grayish plant-fibre, spider 
webs, etc. ; lined with down and feathers ; placed in bushes or trees. 
Eggs: 2 to 6; bluish white, spotted usually in wreath around the larger 
end, with brown, black, and lilac gray. Size 0.66 X 0.48. 
THE’ Yellow Warbler of California is the yellow war- 
bler of the East, the “summer yellow bird” of the Mas- 
sachusetts farmers, sometimes erroneously called the wild 
canary, and its “ wee-chee-chee-chee-cher-wee”” rings as 
joyously from the chaparral as from the wild rose and 
the blackberries. Next to the robin and the bluebird, it 
is the bird best known to the country children, who find 
its nest in the hazel bushes on the way to school. In 
California it is somewhat more shy and less apt to come 
into view from every roadside thicket. 
The nest is an exquisitely moulded cup lined with 
plant down that has been felted until it is like shining 
white satin; even the rim presenting a smoothly rolled 
