PALM WARBLER. 
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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 externally with yellow-olive, inter¬ 
nally 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 coronata 
in its most humble dress, that it is distinguishable only on a close 
examination. However, the bill is longer, and more slender, the 
crown-spot chesnut, instead of yellow, the feathers being destitute 
of the white which is observable in the other by separating the 
feathers; the rump is olive-yellow, not pure yellow, and that colour 
extending on the tail-coverts, which it does not in Sylvia coronata. 
The under parts tinged with yellow, and especially the pure yellow 
tail-coverts, which are pure white in S. coronata , will sufficiently 
distinguish them. 
It is a remarkable circumstance, that there is no obvious 
difference to be observed between the plumage of the sexes, 
notwithstanding the statements of authors to the contrary. This 
is the case, however, in S. coronata , and in almost all the Warblers 
that change periodically from a dull to a bright plumage, and in 
fact, in most birds in which this change takes place. 
According to Buffon and Vieillot, this bird is a permanent 
resident in the West Indies, where, as they state, the name is 
sometimes applied to it of Fausse Linotte. We, however, can 
perceive scarcely any resemblance, except in its dull state of 
plumage, to a similar state of the Red-poll Finch. The name of 
Bimbele , by which it is known among the negroes of those coun¬ 
tries, is derived from the recollection of an African bird, to which, 
probably, the resemblance is not more evident. Unfortunately, 
this propensity of limited minds to refer new objects, however 
