WOOD WARBLERS: Family Compsotblypidae [ 497 ] 



Manitoba. Winters in Gulf Coast States, Mexico, and southern California. In 

 Oregon: Uncommon breeding species, of which we have only a few records east of 

 eastern base of Cascades. 



THE ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER is one of Oregon's more uncommon 

 breeding birds, and very little is known about it. Bendire (1877) listed 

 one from Camp Harney as a breeding bird, and his record undoubtedly 

 belongs here. Gabrielson (192^) erroneously published a sight record 

 from Wallowa County as Lutescent Warbler that should have been re- 

 corded as this form, and the correction is herewith made. Since 192.7 

 Jewett has collected a number of birds in June and September on Hart 

 Mountain, and on May 2.7, 1933, while the authors were together, 

 Gabrielson collected one of several birds on Lookout Mountain, Baker 

 County. Our few sight records and nine skins from eastern Oregon are 

 placed here for want of better classification. The elimination of the form 

 V . c. orestera from the 1931 Check-List has left us somewhat in doubt as 

 to the proper identity, but they are certainly closer to this than to any 

 other form now recognized. Our earliest date of arrival for the species is 

 April 2.7, Wallowa County; our latest, September 2.1, Harney County. 

 We have only one nesting record. Jewett (1934)3), with the aid of a small, 

 keen-eyed boy, collected a female and nest containing four incubated 

 eggs on Hart Mountain, June 18, 1934. 



Lutescent Warbler: 



Vermivora celata lutescens (Ridgway) 



DESCRIPTION. "Similar to celata, but brighter colored; upper parts bright olive 

 green; under parts bright greenish yellow, streaks on under parts dull olive greenish. 

 Young in first plumage: upper parts olive green, wing bars paler or buffy; under parts 

 buffy or straw color shaded with olive on chest, sides, and flanks. Male: length 

 (skins) 4.10-4.45, wing 2.. 2.9-1. 41, tail 1.76-1.93, bill .37-. 38. Female: length 

 (skins) 4.00-4.40, wing 1.14-1.40, tail 1.80-1.85, bill .39-. 40." (Bailey) Nest and 

 eggs: Similar to those of Orange-crowned Warbler. 



DISTRIBUTION. General: Breeds along Pacific Coast from Cook Inlet in Alaska south 

 to southern California. Winters to Central America. In Oregon: Common summer 

 resident of northwestern Oregon and common migrant and less common summer 

 resident of southwestern section. 



THE LUTESCENT WARBLER (Plate 83, 5), while in Oregon, is a bird of the 

 brushlands, where the males utter their wheezy little song as they work 

 restlessly about in the low shrubs. Its dull, yellowish-green coloration 

 makes it difficult to detect it unless it is in motion or song, and conse- 

 quently it is often overlooked. It is, however, one of the common summer 

 birds in the Willamette Valley and on the coast in Clatsop, Tillamook, 

 and Lincoln Counties. It is less common as a breeding species in the Rogue 

 River district but is found there throughout the summer. It crosses the 

 Cascades to Klamath, Deschutes, and Wasco Counties and continues along 



