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yellowish, and with a few blackish streaks on each side of the 
throat, and on the breast and flanks ; the belly is immaculate, 
and more richly tinged with yellow, the inferior 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 externally with pale yellow olive, becoming 
whitish towards the tip ; the five outer ones are subequal ; the 
tail is even, its feathers are somewhat pointed, edged ex- 
ternally with yellow olive, internally with whitish, the outer 
one also externally whitish ; the two outer ones with a large 
pure white spot on their inner vane at tip; the third and 
fourth, each side, with an inner white terminal margin. 
In this plumage, this bird resembles so nearly Sylvia coro- 
nata in its most humble dress, that it is distinguishable only 
on a close examination. However, the bill is longer and 
more slender, the crown-spot chestnut instead of yellow, the 
feathers being destitute of the white which is observable in 
the other by separating the feathers; the rump is olive 
yellow, not pure yellow, and that colour extending on the 
tail-coverts, which it does not in Sylvia coronata. The under 
parts tinged with yellow, and especially the pure yellow tail- 
coverts, which are pure white in S. coronata, will sufficiently 
distinguish them. 
It is a remarkable circumstance that there is no obvious 
difference to be observed between the plumage of the sexes, 
notwithstanding the statements of authors to the contrary. 
This is the case, however, in S. coronata, and in almost all 
the warblers that change periodically from a dull to a bright 
plumage ; and, in fact, in most birds in which this change 
takes place. 
According to Buffon and Vieillot, this bird is a permanent 
resident in the West Indies, where, as they state, the name is 
sometimes applied to it of Fausse linotte. We, however, can 
perceive scarcely any resemblance, except in its dull state of 
plumage, to a similar state of the red-poll finch. The name 
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