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TENNESSEE WARBLER.


with blue. The general colour above is yellow-olive, the head darker, the under parts cream-coloured, fading behind into white. A pale yellow line over the eye ; quills dark brown, the primaries margined with yel- lowish-grey ; the wings without bands.

Length 4^ inches, extent of wings 8; bill along the back ^g, along the edge /j ; tarsus j%.

Ilex laxiplora.

Ilex laxiploha, Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. vol. i. p. 11? — Teteandria Tetragy- NiA, Linn. Khammi, Juss.

Leaves ovate, sinuato-dentate, spinous, shiny, flat ; peduncles supraaxillar, aggregated on the younger branches. An evergreen shrub, with yellowish-red berries.