BLUE-WINGED YELLOW SWAMP-WARBLER. 99 



Blue-winged Yellow Warbler, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. 109. 



Sylvia solitaria, Bonap. Syn., p. 87. 



Blue-winged Yellow Warbler, Sylvia solitaria, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 410. 



Blue- winged Yellow Warbler, Sylvia solitaria, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 102. 



Adult Male. 



Bill nearly as long as the head, straightish, subulato-conical, acute, as deep 

 as broad at the base, the edges acute, the gap line a little deflected at the 

 base. Nostrils basal, lateral, elliptical, half-closed by a membrane. Head 

 rather small. Neck short. Body slender. Feet of ordinary length, slender; 

 tarsus longer than the middle toe, covered anteriorly by a few scutella, the 

 uppermost long; toes scutellate above, the inner free, the hind toe of mode- 

 rate size; claws slender, compressed, acute, arched. 



Plumage soft, blended, tufty. Wings of ordinary length, acute, the second 

 quill longest. Tail longish, rounded when expanded, slightly forked when 

 closed. 



Bill black, with a pale margin. Iris dark brown. Feet and claws flesh- 

 colour, tinged with yellow. Forehead, crown, and under parts of a rich 

 bright-yellow. Back of the head and neck, the back and upper tail coverts 

 bright grass-green. Lore black. Wings greyish-blue, slightly margined 

 with paler, the first two rows of coverts tipped with whitish. Four middle 

 tail-feathers greyish-blue, the outer webs of the rest, and an oblique portion 

 of the outer feather at the end, of the same colour, their inner webs white. 



Length 4| inches, extent of wings 7; bill along the ridge J, along the 

 gapl. 



Adult Female. 



The female scarcely differs from the male in appearance, and is of nearly 

 the same dimensions. 



Large-flowered Hibiscus, Cotton Rose, or Wild Althea. 



Hieiscus grandiflorus, Mich. Fl. Amer., vol. ii. p. 46. Putsch, Fl. Amer., p. 455. — 



MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA, Linn. — MALVACEAE, JllSS. 



This beautiful species of Hibiscus, which does not precisely agree with any 

 that I have seen described, although it is probably the above, is characterized 

 by its ovato-cordate, obtusely and irregularly serrated, acute, venous tough 

 leaves, and its large rose-coloured flowers, which are deep red at the base, 

 and streaked with the same colour. The corolla is about five inches in 

 diameter, the anthers yellow. The stem and leaves are smooth. It grows 

 in salt marshes, and by the edges of pools. 



