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SYLVIA PALMARUM. 
climates of Hudson’s Bay, whose natural productions 
are so well known. 
The present bird was shot near Bordentown, on the 
17th of April, in the morning. It was a fine adult 
male, in the gayer plumage of the breeding season, and 
a description is subjoined. 
Length five inches and a quarter ; extent more than 
eight inches ; bill, five-eighths of an inch long, very 
slender, straight, hardly notched, blackish, paler beneath; 
feet, dusky gray, yellowish inside ; irides, dark brown, 
nearly black ; crown, bright chestnut bay ; bottom of 
the plumage lead colour all over, much darker beneath ; 
a well defined superciliar line, and the rudiment of 
another, on the medial base of the upper mandible, 
rich yellow : the same colour also encircles the eye ; 
streak through the eyes and cheeks dusky olive, some- 
what intermixed with dull chestnut; upper parts olive 
green, each feather being dusky in the middle ; rump 
and upper tail-coverts yellow olive ; all beneath bright 
yellow; sides of the neck, breast, and flanks, with 
chestnut streaks ; superior wing-coverts blackish, mar- 
gined and tipped with olive green, and somewhat tinged 
with chestnut ; inferior wing-coverts yellowish ; quids 
dusky, edged exteriorly with green, the outer one with 
Avhite 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 rufica - 
pilla y and by Latham is called the bioody-side warbler* 
In that which we are about to describe, it was first 
made known by Buffon, who adopted the name of 
BimbeUy given to it in the West Indies, and in this 
state it is figured by Yieillot, as the Sylvia palmarum . 
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 
