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14                 PALM WARBLER.
rump and upper tail-coverts yellow-olive; all beneath bright
yellow; sides of the neck, breast, and flanks with chesnut streaks;
superior wing-coverts blackish, margined and tipped with olive-
green, 'and somewhat tinged with chestiut; inferior wing-coverts
yellowish;' quills dusky, edged exteriorly with green, the outer one
with white on the outer side, two exterior with a large white spot
on the inner web at tip.
In the plumage here described, it has been mentioned by several
authors, under the name of Sylvia ruficapilla, and by Latham is
called the Bloody-side Warbler. In that which we are about to
describe, it was first made known by Buffon, who adopted the
name of Bimbele, given to it in the West Indies, and in this state
it is figured by Vieillot, as the Sylvia palmarum. The following
description is drawn up from a specimen procured in Florida, in
winter.
Length five inches; bill half an inch, slender, almost straight,
and very slightly notched, blackish, paler beneath; the feet are
blackish; irides very dark-brown.; The general plumage above,
is olive-brown, each feather being dusky along the middle: the
feathers of the head are dusky at base, as is the whole plumage,
then they are chesnut nearly to the tip, (forming a concealed spot
of that colour on the crown) where they are of the common colour,
but somewhat darker; the rump and superior tail-coverts are
yellow-olive; a well defined yellowish-white line passes over the
eye, which is encircled with white; the cheeks are dusky, as well
as a streak through the eye; the inferior parts are whitish, slightly
tinged with yellowish, and with a few blackish streaks each side
of the throat, and on the breast and flanks; the belly is inmmacu'
late, and more richly tinged with yellow; the inferidr tail-coverts
being pure yellow; the wing-coverts are of the colour of the feathers
of the back, the blackish centre being more extended and deeper;
the wings have no bands; the quill-feathers are blackish edged