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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 
brilliant 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 colour. 
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 Cumberland rivers. 
