PALM WARBLER. 
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teiiorly with green, the outer one with white on the outer side, 
two exterior with a large white spot on the inner web at tip. ^ 
In the plumage here described, it has been mentioned by 
several authors, under the name of Sylvia ri^capilla^ and by 
Latham is called the bloody-side warbler. In that which we 
are about to describe, it was first made known by Bufibn, who 
adopted the name of Bimhele, given to it in the West Indies, 
and in this state it is figured by Vieillot, as the Sylvia palma- 
rum. The following description is drawn up from a specimen 
procured in Florida, in winter. 
Length five inches ; bill half an inch, slender, almost straight, 
and very slightly notched, blackish, paler beneath ; the feet 
are blackish; irides, very dark brown. The general plumage 
above, is olive brown, each feather being dusky along the 
middle : the feathers of the head are dusky at base, as is the 
whole plumage ; then they are chestnut nearly to the tip, 
(forming a concealed spot of that colour on the crown,) where 
they are of the common colour, but somewhat darker ; the 
rump and superior tail-coverts are yellow olive ; a w^ell defined 
yellowish white line passes over the eye, which is encircled 
with white ; the cheeks are dusky, as W’ell as a streak through 
the eye ; the inferior parts are whitish, slightly tinged with 
yellowish, and with a few blackish streaks on each side of the 
throat, and on the breast and flanks ; the belly is immaculate, 
and more richly tinged with yellow, the inferior tail-coverts 
being pure yellow ; the wing-coverts are of the colour of the 
feathers of the back, the blackish centre being more extended 
and deeper; the wings have no bands; the quill feathers are 
blackish, edged externally with pale yellow olive, becoming 
whitish towards the tip ; the five outer ones are subequal ; the 
tail is even, its feathers are somewhat pointed, edged exter- 
nally with yellow olive, internally with whitish, the outer one 
also externally whitish ; the two outer ones with a large pure 
white spot on their inner vane at tip ; the third and fourth, each 
side, with an inner white terminal margin. 
In this plumage, this bird resembles so nearly Sylvia coro- 
