a few long scutella; toes scutellate above, the inner free, the hind toe of
moderate size ; claws slender, compressed, arched, acute.
Plumage soft, blended. Wings rather short, second and third quills
longest, first shorter than the fourth, which is almost as long as the third.
Tail rather long, slightly emarginate, of twelve rounded feathers.
Bill black. Iris brownish-black. Feet dusky, the toes yellow beneath.
Upper part of the head ash-grey. A band from the forehead to
the eye, passing under it, and becoming broader behind the eye, hind
neck, anterior part of the back, and upper tail-coverts, black. A short
white line over and behind the eye, and a speck of the same under it.
Wing-coverts and quills deep brown, edged with light grey, the first row
of small coverts and the secondary coverts broadly tipped with white,
forming two bars across the wing. Tail brownish-black, the feathers, excepting
the two middle, having an oblong white mark on the inner web
beyond the middle, forming a broad bar across the tail. The throat bright
yellow, the rest of the lower parts of the same colour, fading behind into
white, the middle of the neck, the breast, and sides, marked with large
oblong longitudinal spots of brownish-black. Rump greyish-yellow.
During winter the black band crossing the cheek, passes over the hind
neck, and joins the black of the back.
Length 5 inches, extent of wings 1\ ; bill along the ridge along
the edge T
6
5 ; tarsus | , middle toe / 2 .
Adult Female. Plate CXXIII. Fig. %
The Female is similar to the male, but somewhat paler beneath.
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l o r the description of the Young fully fledged, see vol. i. p. 260.
THE FLOWERING RASPBERRY.
R U B U S O D O R A T U S , Willd. Sp. P L vol. ii. p. 1085. Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. vol. i.
p. 3 4 8 . — I C O S A N D R I A P O L Y G Y N I A , Linn. R O S A C E A , JUSS.
This species of rasp has the stems hispid; the leaves three or fivelobed,
acute ; the flowers in lateral and terminal corymbs, with divaricate
stalks and appendiculate calyces. It is abundant in the Middle and
Eastern, but rare in the Southern and Western Districts. It forms part
of the rich undergrowth of our woods, and also grows in old fields with
other species of the genus. The flowers are rose-coloured and showy, but
destitute of odour, and the fruit is delicious and highly fragrant, from
which circumstance the species derives its name.
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preference. Its motions are extremely graceful; its tail is constantly
spread as it flits along the branches, or even while it is on the ground, to
which it frequently betakes itself, and its wings are usually held in a drooping
position, so as to display all the beauty of its plumage. It feeds on insects
and their larva?. Now and then it may be seen balancing itself in
the air, opposite a cluster of leaves, among which it darts to secure its
prey, and not unfrequently it emerges a few feet from among the foliage
of a tree or bush, to seize a fluttering insect. In catching its prey, it
does not produce the clicking sound, caused by the sudden meeting of the
mandibles, so remarkable in some other species.
The nest, which is placed deep among the branches of low fir trees, is
supported by horizontal twigs, and is constructed of moss and lichens,
lined with fibrous roots, and a great quantity of feathers. In one, found
in Labrador, in the beginning of July, there were five small eggs, rather
more elongated than is usual in the genus. They were white, sprinkled
with reddish dots near the larger end. The female, on being disturbed,
spread out her wings and tail, fluttered along the branches in the agony
of despair, lingered trembling about the spot, and returned to the nest
while we were only a few yards distant from it.
During the first days of August, I saw many of the young following
their parents, and perceived that some were already on their way southward.
While in the Bay of St George, Newfoundland, I again saw these
birds daily, although they became scarcer the longer we remained in the
country. I also traced their retrograde flight into Nova Scotia, but on
landing in the United States lost sight of them.
The young of this species is represented in Plate L., and described at
page 260 of the first volume of the present work.
S Y L V I A M A C U L O S A , Lath. Ind. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 536.—Ch. Bonaparte, Synops. of Birds
of the United States, p. 78.
B L A C K , A N D , Y E L L O W "WARBLER, S Y L V I A M A G N O L I A , Wils. Americ. Ornith. vol. iii.
p. 63. PI. 2 3 . Male. Nuttall, Manual, vol. i. p. 370.
Adult Male. Plate CXXIII. Fig. 1.
Bill shortish, nearly straight, subulato-conical, acute, nearly 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 of ordinary size, neck short, body slender. Feet of ordinary
length, slender ; tarsus longer than the middle toe, covered anteriorly by