374 TENNESEE WARBLER. 



of a rich yellow olive; lesser wing coverts the same; wings deep 

 dusky, edged broadly with yellow olive; tail forked, olive, re- 

 lieved with dusky; cheeks and upper part of the head inclining 

 to light bluish, and tinged with olive; line from the nostrils over 

 the eye pale yellow, fading into white; throat and breast pale 

 cream colour; belly and vent white; legs purplish brown; bill 

 pointed and thicker at the base than those of the Sylvia genus 

 generally are; upper mandible dark dusky, lower somewhat 

 paler; eye hazel. 



The female differs little, in the colour of her plumage, from 

 the male; the yellow line over the eye is more obscure, and the 

 olive not of so rich a tint. 





