272 PALM WARBLER. 
hardly notched, blackish, paler beneath; feet, dusky grey, 
yellowish inside; irides, dark brown, nearly black; crown, 
bright chestnut bay ; bottom of the plumage lead colour all 
over, much darker beneath; a well-defined superciliar line, 
and the rudiment of another, on the medial base of the upper 
mandible, rich yellow ; the same colour also encircles the eye; 
streak through the eyes and cheeks, dusky olive, somewhat 
intermixed with dull chestnut ; upper parts olive green, each 
feather being dusky in the middle; rump and upper tail- 
coverts yellow olive, all beneath bright yellow; sides of the 
neck, breast, and flanks, with chestnut streaks ; superior 
wing-coverts blackish, margined and tipt with olive green, 
and somewhat tinged with chestnut; 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 Bimbelé, given to it in the West Indies, 
and in this state it is figured by Vieillot as the Sylvia palma- 
rum. 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. ‘he 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 chestnut 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 
