[TN-Bird] Lewis County mystery bird -- opinions?

I've been debating whether to go out on a limb with an ID for this  
bird.  Instead, I'll put it out for opinions.  This is not an easy call.

The bird was in my backyard in rural Lewis County this morning  
(Thursday 31 August 2006).  I saw it repeatedly over about 5 minutes  
at fairly close range in a thicket of elm, sumac, sycamore, etc.  The  
first viewings were backlit, so I moved around to the other side of  
the thicket and got some looks in better light.  This is what I saw:

My first impression was of a fairly long-tailed, long-billed  
warbler.  I saw that it had very dull coloration, greenish above,  
yellowish below, with distinct but not bold wingbars.  There was not  
any real streakiness about the bird.  I never saw a hint of tail  
spots.  I was repeatedly seeing something about the bird's throat - a  
dingy gray-duskyness in slight contrast to the breast below it, most  
conspicuous (but still subtle) at the sides of the throat.  The bird  
had a distinct, but again not bold, eye ring that appeared broken,  
and hints of something resembling faint spectacles.  The eye was  
dark.  Some features the bird definitely did not have include any  
yellowness to the lores or spectacles, and any distinct spotting or  
streaking on the breast.  The greenness on the top and yellowness on  
the bottom were both muted, not strong colors.  The shape of the bird  
ruled out a large number of drab autumn warblers -- it was definitely  
long-tailed and long billed in appearance; the bill did not however  
appear thick.  It also seemed relatively large.  As you can tell from  
all my qualifiers, this was not a strongly marked bird in any way.   
It behavior was moderately slow gleaning, moving in a relaxed sort of  
fashion at heights from near the ground to about 10 feet up in the  
brushy young trees.  Spishing and screech-owl imitations seemed to  
attract some interest, but did not get it highly aggitated.  They did  
trigger two vocalizations, but I'd like to hear what people think  
about just the visual description before I get in to those.

Opinions?

Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
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