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TENNESEE WARBLER 



The Tennesee Warbler is four inches and three quarters long, 

 and eight inches in extent; the back, rump and tail coverts, are 

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

 dusky, edged broadly with yellow olive ; tail forked, olive, relieved 

 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 color; 

 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 color of her plumage, from 

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

 olive not of so rich a tint. 



