YELLOW OR ORANGE CONSPICUOUS 553 
ing on whirring wings to pick one from the under side of 
a leaf so swiftly the eye can scarcely follow him. His 
song reminds one of the tinkle of a brooklet in its merry, 
rather metallic melody, and is a distinct note in the med- 
ley of spring music. 
Like his Eastern relative, the Wilson warbler, the 
Pileolated builds his nest close to the ground in a 
swampy willow thicket, 
and is not infrequently a be 
ron 
victim to the marsh rats 7 @¥ 
and snakes. The first 
brood is usually hatched 
early in May, and is fed 
by regurgitation by both 
parents until four or five 
days old, when the usual 
food of small insects and 
little green 
worms Is given 
to them in the 
fresh state. As 
soon as their 
nursery days are 685 a. PILEOLATED WARBLER. 
over, the male ** His song reminds one of the tinkle of a brooklet.” 
takes entire charge of the nestlings, feeding them for ten 
days or two weeks longer. 
For the second brood a locality slightly higher up the 
mountain may be chosen, but oftener the little mother 
builds her second nest within a hundred yards of the 
first, commencing it alone, while the male is still occu- 
