Adult Female. Plate CLXXXIV. Fig. 4, 5.
The bill, feet and sides, as in the Male, as are the upper parts, only
the tail-feathers are more broadly and extensively margined with the
dark colour, and tipped with white. The fore-neck and centre of the
breast are white, with a central longitudinal band of black, and an emerald
green margin along the sides of the neck, passing beneath the wing,
the lower tail-coverts green, slightly tipped with brownish-white.
Length 4>h inches.
LARGE-FLOWERED BIGNONIA.
BlGNONIA GRANDIFLORA, Willd.— DlDYNAMIA A N G I O S P E R M I A , Linn. BlGNONIACEJE,
JllSS.
Leaves pinnate, leaflets ovate, acuminate, inciso-serrate; flowers in a
terminal panicle, large, the tube of the corolla twice as long as the calyx.
For the beautiful drawing from which this plant has been engraved, I am
indebted to Miss M. MARTIN.
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B A C H M A N S W A R B L E R .
SYLVIA BACHMANII.
P L A T E C L X X X Y . MALE AND FEMALE.
MY friend BACHMAN has the merit of having discovered this pretty
little species of Warbler, and to him I have the pleasure of acknowledging
my obligations for the pair which you will find represented in the plate,
accompanied with a figure of one of the most beautiful of our southern
flowers, originally drawn by my friend's sister, Miss MARTIN. I myself
have never had the good fortune to meet with any individuals of this interesting
Sylvia, respecting which little is as yet known, its discoverer
having only procured a few specimens of both sexes, without being able
to find a nest. The first obtained was found by him a few miles from
Charleston, in South Carolina, in July 1833, while I was rambling
over the crags of Labrador. According to my amiable friend, it was
" a lively active bird, gliding among the branches of thick bushes, occasionally
mounting on the wing and seizing insects in the air in the manner
of a Flycatcher. It was an old female that had to all appearance
just reared a brood of young.1'' Shortly after, several were seen in the
same neighbourhood ; so that we may yet expect an account of its manners,
migration, and breeding, which may find a place in a subsequent
volume of my work.
BACHMAN'S WARBLER, SYLVIA BACHMANII.
Adult Male. Plate CLXXXV. Fig. 1.
Bill rather long, slightly bent towards the tip, subulato-conical, extremely
acute, the edges sharp and inflected. Nostrils basal, lateral, elliptical,
half-closed above by an arched membrane. The general form slender.
Feet of ordinary length ; tarsus slender, compressed, anteriorly scutellate,
sharp behind ; toes free, the hind toe strong, the two lateral nearly equal,
the middle one much longer; claws slender, arched, compressed, acute.
Plumage soft and blended, slightly glossed. Wings of moderate length,
the first four quills nearly equal, the second longest; the second, third,
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