HAI.' 



HAI.IDitA 



DM bead aud Deck, shiainf 

 lhn*t whitish; wmg. 

 ZooL 111..' lit atria*. 



Al*y~* Jtmlnlu. 



It is fond i. Australia. 



Habrta. Uwia. wbo ha. figured this Kingfisher in his 'Birds of 

 Xc. Holland.' state, that it inhal.il. beads of rivers, visiting dead 

 has of which it dart* on its pray in the water 

 , and i* eoeaeUoxs oompletely immersed by the velocity of ita 



Id. Bill very broad, 

 the upper margins 



>'oatril* Bembranaceoas ; the aperture round, 

 Wijs as in ttsttWo, but longer; the thii-.l 













y 



/.-,.-,.. ^w.rt|sMU. 

 BillT-y 



Ua<> of KHa/ voLU.) that the 

 those of the Puff. Bird* and Hermit ll,nl> 

 of tfc. latter i. weak^-. "Tb, 



by th. jtruuuil bring strewed with the beautiful wing* of their 

 victim*, the body alone of which they devour." 



Mr. Swainaon further observes that in all the group* of this family 

 previously noticed the bill U invariably compressed on the side*, and 

 generally of considerable length ; but in GaUmla grandu a change 

 from thw structure ia firet discovered, and we aee a bill coniderably 

 broad aud depreeeed; that characUi. in abort, which i* in uniaon 

 with the next family, according to Mr. Swainaon's arrangement, 

 namely, the Tnymuda. 



(J. paradnta, Swallow-Tailed Kingfisher, Edw. ; Paradue Jacamar, 

 Lath. Siae of a lark ; colour golden-green ; throat, neck, and leaeer 

 wing covert, while ; bead violaceoua- brown ; bill and feet, the latter 

 of which are feathered to the toe*, black ; two intermediate tail- 

 feather* loogeiL 



It u a native of Surinam. 



Rw.llow. Tailed Kingfisher (Galbxla pfraj.ua}. 



HAI,K'SIA (named iu honour of Stephen Hales, D.D., author of 

 ' Vegetable Static*,' 4c.), a genu* of Plauto belonging to the natural 

 MM siyratt*. It hat a mnnopetalou* corolla ventricoeely camiviuu- 

 late, with a 4-lobed erect border ; the Umens 18 to 16 ; nlamente 

 combined into a tube at the bate, and lulnate to the corolla- the 

 anther* oblong, erect, 2-celled,dehwcm)flengthwiaej the ovary in: 

 the rtyle atngle; the stigma limple ; the fruit a drupe, which i ,lrv, 



ObUMUT. With 2-4 Winfnwl furl*.* tMtn.lin.itn.j l.n *!. . Lir! 



- ....|..^ , iiiv a iiiuj^-, V>IIH u in iiry 



. with 2-4 winged angle*, terminated by the permanent style; 

 the cell. 1-Meded. with the *eeds at the bottom of the cells. The 

 sprain are trees with alternate rerrated leaves, and lateral famicles of 

 pedicellate drooping white flower*. Thi* gemi* has been mail- Hi.- 

 type of an order Ualetiacca by D. Don, who U followed by Link and 



//. trlra^era, Common Snowdrop-Tree, has ovate, lanceolate 

 BiMtod, .harjily wrrated leaves; the fniit with four wings. This 

 plant M a tree, growing from 16 to 20 feet high, and is a native of 

 South Carolina. It has fine white flower*, from to 10 in a fscicle 

 .Imoping and resembling those of a snowdrop. The wood is hard 

 and veined. It is one of the hardest and also one of the handsomest 

 the American deciduous trees. The rate of growth for the first 

 five or six yean ia from 12 to 18 inches a year. It ripens it* seeds 

 freely in this country, and it may be propagated from these or imported 

 There is another specie*, G. dipttra, which i* also an American 

 plant, but does not attain so great a height as the last //. noi , 

 u a native of Florida, and i* suppo.e<l by *ome botani*ts U, IK- m 

 .mall flowered variety of the first Tl,, y will grow in any con,,,,,,;, 

 oil, and may be propagated by slips from the root, as well as 



Q :, . . .1 - 



(I>j.n. DieUomgdtoui Plant i ; Loudon, Encyclopadia of Tru* and 



HAI.KliEAK. [Biox.] 



HAI I)Jt ] 



HAUiiiT. IUirrooMso) 

 (> H A I S. Professor NiUon' name for a genus of 



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