RATIIBONE’S WOOD-WARBLER. 
53 
from 60 to 80 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. Amcr, Orn., vol. ii. p. 111. 
Sylvia cestiva, Bonap. Syn., p. 83. 
Yellow-poll Warbler, Sylvia cestiva, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 470 ; vol. v. p.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 yellowish-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. 
RATHB ONE’S WOOD-WARBLER. 
Sylvicola Rathbonii, Aud . 
PLATE LXSXIX. — Male and Female. 
Kind reader, you are now presented with a new and beautiful little species 
of W arbler, 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 unlooked- 
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 
Vol. II. 8 
