SYLVIA PALMARUM. 
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climates of Hudson’s Bay, whoso natural production 
are so well known. 
The present bird was shot near Bordentown, on th* 
17th of April, in the morning. It was a line ad<n 
male, in the gayer plumage of the breeding season, aO a 
a description is subjoined. 
Length live inches and a quarter ; extent more tha 11 
eight inches; bill, five-eighths of an inch long, 
slender, straight, hardly notched, blackish, paler beneath’ 
feet, dusky gray, yellowish inside ; irides, dark bro"' 1 *’. 
nearly black ; crown, bright chestnut bay ; bottom 0 
the plumage lead colour all over, much darker beneath’ 
a well defined superciliar line, and the rudiment o* 
another, on the medial base of the upper mandibk’’ 
rich yellow : the same colour also encircles the ey f ’ 
streak through the eyes and cheeks dusky olive, sou’ 8 ' 
what intermixed with dull chestnut; upper parts oli' c 
green, each feather being dusky in the middle ; run>P 
and upper tail-coverts yellow olive; all beneath bright 
yellow ; sides of the neck, breast, and tlanks, with 
chestnut streaks ; superior wing-coverts blackish, mat' 
ginedand tipped with olive green, and somewhat ting 6 ® 
with chestnut ; inferior wing-coverts yellowish; quid 9 
dusky, edged exteriorly with green, the outer one wit* 1 
white on the outer side, two exterior with a larg e 
white spot on the inner web at tip. 
In the plumage here described, it has been mention’ 1 ' 
by several authors, under the name of Sylvia ruficV 
pilla, and by Latham is called the bloody-side warbk' r " 
In that which we are about to describe, it was fir s £ 
made known by Buffon, who adopted the name °} 
Bimbeti, given to it in the West Indies, and in tin 9 
state it is figured by Vieillot, as the Sylvia palmaru' 11 ' 
The following description is drawn up from a specim 1 ’ 11 
procured in Florida, in winter. 
Length five inches ; bill half an inch, slender, alino 9 
straight, and very slightly notched, blackish, p a * e 
beneath ; the feet are blackish ; irides, very dark bro" 1 '' 
The general plumage above, is olive brown, e» c ,. 
feather being dusky along the middle : the feathers 0 
