The Lutescent Warbler (Helminthophila celata lutescens)

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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 was 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 warbler 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-