. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Orange-crowned Warblers Nesting.— Nest: On the ground, usually on partially shaded hillside, and often recessed in bank; of weeds, moss, and woodland waste, lined with dried grasses and horsehair. Eggs: 4 or 5; white, heavily speckled, chiefly about larger end, with dull reddish brown. Av. size: x (.62 x .47); index, 76. Season: April -June; two broods. Range of I*. c. lutescens.—Summer resident in the Pacific Coast district of North
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Orange-crowned Warblers Nesting.— Nest: On the ground, usually on partially shaded hillside, and often recessed in bank; of weeds, moss, and woodland waste, lined with dried grasses and horsehair. Eggs: 4 or 5; white, heavily speckled, chiefly about larger end, with dull reddish brown. Av. size: x (.62 x .47); index, 76. Season: April -June; two broods. Range of I*. c. lutescens.—Summer resident in the Pacific Coast district of North America, broadly defined, and occasionally spilling over upon the eastern slopes of the main ranges in Oregon, Washington, etc.; breeding from the mountains of southern California north (at least) to the Kenai Peninsula; south in winter beyond the border of the United States to Guatemala. Distribution in California.—Early spring migrant and summer resident west of the Sierran divide; breeding in semi-wooded areas of the Upper Sonoran and Tran- sition zones; also common east of the Sierras northerly, where inclining toward orestera; apparently passes entirely beyond the State in winter. Authorities.—Gambel (Vermivora celata), Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii., 1847, p. 155, part (Calif.); Finley, Condor, vol. vi., 1904, p. 131, figs, (nesting habits, nests and eggs; photos of adults, young and nest); Oberholser, Auk, vol. xxii., 1905, p. 245 (distr., desc, meas., crit.); Beal, U. S. Dept. Agric, Biol. Surv. Bull., no. 30, 1907, p. 51 part (food). Photo by J. H. Boides , THE NAME "Warbler" as applied to the American family Mniotil- tidcB is rather a misnomer. Originally applied to the Old World Sylviidce, KI^__a__1_B. the word becomes intel- ligible with us only by Taken in Washington U S i n £f the O T G f i X " '; Of the sixteen genera of American Wood Warblers now recognized by our Committee, only two, Seiurus (the Water- Thrushes) and
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