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PALM WARBLER. 
rump and upper tail-coverts yellow-olive; all beneath bright 
yellow; sides of the neck, breast, and flanks with chesnut streaks; 
superior wing-coverts blackish, margined and tipped with olive- 
green, and somewhat tinged with chesnut; inferior wing-coverts 
yellowish; quills dusky, edged exteriorly 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 rujicapilla, and by Latham is 
called the Bloody-side Warbler. In that which we are about to 
describe, it was first made known by BufFon, who adopted the 
name of Bimbele, given to it in the West Indies, and in this state 
it is figured by Vieillot, 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 the head are dusky at base, as is the whole plumage, 
then they are chesnut 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 well defined yellowish-white line passes over the 
eye, which is encircled with white; the cheeks are dusky, as well 
as a streak through the eye; the inferior parts are whitish, slightly 
tinged with yellowish, and with a few blackish streaks each side 
of the throat, and on the breast and flanks; the belly is immacu¬ 
late, 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 
