Adult Male. Plate LXV. Fig. 1.
Bill of ordinary length, nearly straight subulato-conical, acute, as deep as broad at the base, with sharp edges. Nostrils basal, oval, half concealed by the feathers. Head rather large, neck short, body ovate. Feet of ordinary length, slender; tarsus compressed, covered anteriorly with a few long scutella, acute behind, a little longer than the middle toe; toes free, scutellate above; claws arched, slender, compressed, acute.
Plumage blended, soft, and tufty. Wings of ordinary length, the second quill longest. Tail rather short, nearly even, of twelve obtuse feathers.
Bill yellowish-brown above, yellow beneath. Iris hazel. Feet flesh-colour. The general colour is 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 colour.
Length 4½ inches; bill along the ridge ⅓, along the gap 5⁄12; tarsus 7⁄12, middle toe ½.
Adult Female. Plate LXV. Fig. 2.
The female is almost precisely the same in external appearance.
The Ramping Trumpet-flower.
Bignonia capreolata, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iii. p. 297. Pursh, Flor. Amer. vol. ii. p. 419.—Didynamia Angiospermia, Linn. Bignoniæ, Juss.