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TENNESEE WARBLER. 
of a rich yellow olive j lesser wing coverts the same; wings deep 
dusky, edged broadly with yellow olive; tail forked, olive, re- 
lieved 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 colour; 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 colour of her plumage, from 
the male; the yellow line over the eye is more obscure, and the 
olive not of so rich a tint. 
