YELLOW OR ORANGE CONSPICUOUS 543 



Warbler is comparatively little known. Its sliy.ness 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- 

 ville-Tahoe stage route, 



I heard this bird sing 

 and caught tantaliz- 

 ing glimpses of him 

 in the tops of the 

 manzanita and deer 

 brush along the road- 

 side ; but, seeming 

 to know intuitively 

 whenever we made 

 a stop to study him, he would instantly end his thin 

 little song and vanish among the green leaves. 



669. Hermit Waeblek. 

 ' With her beak full of cobwebs. ' 



