Plate CLIV. Male.
Bill shorter than the head, straight, very acute; wing with the second
and third quills longest; tail nearly even. Upper parts
yellowish-olive, the head darker; lower parts cream-coloured, fading
behind into white; a pale yellow line over the eye; quills and
tail-feathers dusky, the primaries margined with whitish, the
secondaries with greenish-yellow.
_Male_, 4-1/2, 8.
Florida to New York, and in the interior to Kentucky. Rare. Migratory.
Tennessee Warbler, Sylvia peregrina, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. iii.
p. 83.
Sylvia peregrina, Bonap. Syn. p. 87.
Tennessee Warbler, Sylvia peregrina, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 412.
Tennessee Warbler, Sylvia peregrina, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p.
307.