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green on the back and rump. The head and sides of the face are in sharp 

 contrast to the rest of the upper parts, being ash gray with a bluish tinge, 

 which becomes grayer on the sides of the face, and there is a stripe over the 

 eye of grayish white. The wings and tail are dusky, with olive green edg- 

 ings to the feathers. The under parts are white, more or less suffused with 

 yellow, the sides and flanks are grayish, the belly and feathers under the tail 

 are white. The female is like the male, but has the gray of the head suf- 

 fused with greenish olive, and is yellower beneath. Immature birds are 

 bright olive green above, including the top and sides of the head. Their 

 under parts are much suffused with yellowish, except the feathers below the 

 tail, which are white. 



TENNESSEE WARBLER. 



The nest is built of fine plant fibres and moss, lined with finer material 

 and hair, and is usually placed in bushes near the ground. The eggs, gener- 

 ally four in number, are white, with a circle of brown dots of varying shades 

 at the larger end. They are about three fifths of an inch long, and half an 

 inch in their other diameter. 



The birds are found throughout Eastern North America, during their 

 migrations, and breed from Northern New York and Maine northward to 

 Hudson's Bay. They winter in Central America. 



