Birds of Oregon and Washington 69 



wholly to it. Such a little bunch of beauty, 

 seen for the first time, will send a thrill of joy 

 through the beholder's heart. The colors in 

 which he is arrayed are so bright and harmoni- 

 ous, and his song is so sweet and clear, one will 

 ever afterward know him. His proper home, 

 when nesting and all the season through, is in 

 the spruce and pine ; and when in these trees, 

 you can only catch sight of him as he appears 

 ever and anon on an outer branch and hangs for 

 a moment searching with his sharp eyes for his 

 insect food ; or when, for a moment, he darts to 

 a deciduous tree in the neighborhood, or to a 

 lower dead limb on the evergreen. 



The bird is very abundant, and the people of 

 the Pacific coast should glory in this, which is 

 perhaps, more than any other, characteristically 

 their own beautiful Warbler. 



PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION. Head, back and wings, 

 bluish-gray, with yellow spot upon crown and rump 

 the yellow spot upon the crown partly concealed ; back, 

 streaked with black ; white patch upon wings ; yellow 

 throat ; breast, white, streaked broadly with black, with 

 striking yellow patches on the sides of the breast. 



Summer resident, but it is probable that it 

 occasionally spends the winter with us. 



