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from GO to SO rings, flattened, somewhat tapering; the bronchi of ordinary- 

 size, of from 12 to 15 rings; there are cleido-tracheal muscles, lateral mus- 

 cles, sterno-tracheal, and four pairs of inferior laryngeal. 



Blue-eyed Warbler, Sylvia citrinella. Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. 111. 



Sylvia oestiva, Bonap. Syn., p. 83. 



Yellow-poll Warbler, Sylvia czstiva, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 476; vol. v. 453. 



Adult Male. 

 Children's Warbler, Sylvia Childrenii, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 180. Young. 



Outer four quills nearly equal, second longest; tail emarginate. Male with 

 the upper parts pale yellowish-green, the rump greenish-yellow, the fore part 

 of the head, cheeks, throat, sides of the neck and lower parts pure yellow, 

 the breast and sides streaked with brownish-red; feathers of the wings deep 

 brown, primaries margined with yellowish-green, secondaries, their coverts, 

 and the first row of small coverts with yellow; tail-feathers brown, with the 

 greater part of the inner webs and a portion of the outer, yellow, excepting 

 the middle two. Female similar, but with the colours less bright, and the 

 streaks on the breast and sides obsolete. Young with the upper parts yel- 

 lowish-green, tinged with brown; forehead, sides of head, and lower parts 

 deep yellow. 



Male, 4f , 8. 



From Texas northward, and throughout the interior. Abundant. Mi- 

 gratory. 



RATHBONE'S WOOD-WARBLER. 



t-Sylvicola Rathbonii, Jlud. 

 PLATE LXXXIX.— Male and Female. 



Kind reader, you are now presented with a new and beautiful little species 

 of Warbler, which I have honoured with the name of a family that must ever 

 be dear to me. Were I at liberty here to express the gratitude which swells 

 my heart, when the remembrance of all the unmerited kindness and unlook- 

 ed-for friendship which I have received from the Rathbones of Liverpool 

 comes to my mind, I might produce a volume of thanks. But I must con- 



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