334 RATHBONE WARBLER. 



Sylvia Rathbonia. 



Adult Male. Plate LXV. Fig. 1. 



Bill of ordinary length, nearly straight, subulato-conical, acute, as 

 deep as broad at the base, with sharp edges. Nostrils basal, oval, half 

 concealed by the feathers. Head rather large, neck short, body ovate. 

 Feet of ordinary length, slender ; tarsus compressed, covered anteriorly 

 with a few long scutella, acute behind, a little longer than the middle 

 toe ; toes free, scutellate above ; claws arched, slender, compressed, 

 acute. 



Plumage blended, soft, and tufty. Wings of ordinary length, the 

 second quill longest. Tail rather short, nearly even, of twelve obtuse 

 feathers. 



Bill yeUowish-brown above, yellow beneath. Iris hazel. Feet flesh- 

 colour. The general colour is bright yellow, the upper parts olivaceous. 

 Quills and tail wood-brown, the former yellow on the outer web, the lat- 

 ter margined externally with the same colour. 



Length 4^ inches ; bill along the ridge ^, along the gap ^^ ; tarsus 

 ^^, middle toe |. 



Adult Female. Plate LXV. Fig. 2. 



The female is almost precisely the same in external appearance. 



The Ramping Trumpet-flower. 



BiGNONiA CAPREOLATA, Willd. Sp. PI. Vol. iii. p. S97. Pursh, Flor. Anier. vol. ii. 

 p. 419.— DiDTKAMiA Angiospermia, Linn. Bignoni^, Juss. 



This species is distinguished by its conjugate cirrhous leaves, with 

 oblonso-lanceolate leaflets, which are somewhat cordate at the base, the 

 lower leaves single. The flowers are carmine. 



