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RATHBOKES WOOD-WARBLER. 
content myself with informing you, that the small tribute of gratitude which 
alone it is in my power to pay, I now joyfully accord, by naming after them 
one of those birds, to the study of which all my efforts have been directed. 
I trust that future naturalists, regardful of the feelings which have guided 
me in naming this species, will continue to it the name of Rathbone’s Wood- 
Warbler. 
I met with the species now under consideration only once, when I pro- 
cured both the male and the female represented in the plate. They were 
actively engaged in searching for food amongst the blossoms and leaves of 
the bignonia, on which I have placed them. All my endeavours to discover 
their nest, or to procure other individuals, having proved abortive, I am 
unable to say anything of their habits and history ; but should I be more 
fortunate at some future period, I shall not fail to record the result of my 
observations respecting this delicate little Warbler. 
The bignonia, on which they are represented, grows abundantly on the 
low alluvial grounds of the States of Mississippi and Louisiana, sparingly in 
Tennessee, and about the mouth of the Ohio. It twines round the trunks of 
various trees, and produces beautiful flowers, in which Humming-birds are 
frequently seen to search for the minute insects which form their food. 
They are destitute of smell, but are seen both during spring and autumn. 
Ratiibone’s Warbler, Sylvia Ratlibonia, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. i. p. 333. 
Wings of ordinary length, the second quill longest ; tail nearly even. The 
general colour of the plumage bright yellow, the upper parts olivaceous ; 
quills and tail wood-brown, the former yellow on the outer web, the latter 
margined externally with the same. Female similar. 
Male, 4£. 
Mississippi. Only one pair seen. 
The Ramping Trumpet-flower. 
Bignonia carreolata, Wild., Sp. PI., vol. iii. p. 297. Pursch, Flor. Amer., vol. ii. 
p. 419. — Didynamia Angiospermia, Linn. — Bignonia, Juss. 
This species is distinguished by its conjugate cirrhous leaves, with oblongo- 
lanceolate leaflets, which are somewhat cordate at the base, the lower leaves 
single. The flowers are carmine. 
