YELLOW OR ORANGE CONSPICUOUS 548 
Warbler is comparatively little known. Its shyness and 
its quiet way of slipping from tree to tree, keeping well 
out of reach in the conifers, makes any extensive obser- 
vation of its habits diffi- 
cult. On the Placer- Uy / AE 
ville-Tahoe stage route, 
I heard this bird sing 
and caught tantaliz- 
ing glimpses of him 
in the tops of the 
Uy manzanita and deer 
brush along the road- 
side; but, seeming 
669. HerMIT WARBLER. - - 
‘“* With her beak full of cobwebs.’ to know inturtis ely 
whenever we made 
a stop to study him, he would instantly end his thin 
little song and vanish among the green leaves. 
