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KENTUCKY WARBLER. 



experience all the ardency of those passions no less than their lord 

 and sovereign man. 



The Kentucky Warbler is five inches and a half long, and 

 eight inches in extent ; the upper parts are an olive green ; line 

 over the eye and partly under it, and whole lower parts, rich bril- 

 liant yellow; head slightly crested, the crown deep black, towards 

 the hind part spotted with light ash ; lores, and spot curving down 

 the neck, also black ; tail nearly even at the end, and of a rich 

 olive green ; interior vanes of that and the wings dusky ; legs an 

 almost transparent pale flesh color. 



The female wants the black under the eye, and the greater 

 part of that on the crown, having those parts yellowish. This bird 

 is very abundant in the moist woods along the Tennesee and Cum- 

 berland rivers. 



