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yellow-throat was met with this year that contained more than four eggs. In pre- 
vious seasons I have found a few sets of five eggs, but never more. Four eggs 
are the usual completed laying; three eggs to a first set is not uncommon, while a 
set of five is a comparative rarity. 
Upper Lake, Lake Coimty, Califor7iia. 
The Lutescent Warbler 
(yHelminthophila celata lutescens) 
BY WII.l.IAM ].. FINLEY 
ILLUSTRATED BY HERMAN T, BOHLMAN 
T he first nest of this warbler I ever found was tucked up under some dry 
ferns in the bank of a little hollow where a tree had been uprooted. The 
mother flushed when I was twenty feet distant and flew straight over the 
LUTESCENT WARBLER FEEDING YOUNG 
tree-tops. I watched several times to get a good look at the owner, but she was 
very shy and not till the following season, when I found two more nests of the 
same species, did I place this warbler on my list of bird acquaintances. 
The second nest was on a hillside under a fir tree, placed on the ground in 
a tangle of grass and briar. It contained five eggs, pinkish-white in color, 
dotted with brown. This owner was not so shy as the first but remained in the 
tree overhead. I found a third nest of four eggs in a sloping bank just beside a 
woodland path. A fourth nest w^as tucked in under the overhanging grasses and 
leaves in an old railroad cut. It contained five fresh eggs on the 8th of June. 
Last summer I found a nest placed in a somewhat different position. While 
watching a white-crowned sparrow my attention was attracted to a lutescent warb- 
ler in a willow. Twice she carried food into the thick foliage of an arrowwood 
bush. A cluster of twigs often sprouts out near the upper end of the branch and 
here, in the fall, the leaves collect in a thick bunch. In one of these bunches, 
three feet from the ground, the warbler had tunneled out the dry leaves and snug- 
