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When the Pink Lady-slipper is found in very swampy 

 land, where it often flourishes most vigorously, specimens 

 of its flowers may be secured which are bleached nearly 

 white from the excessive moisture of its surroundings. 



Mr. Baldwin, cpjoting a lady who is familiar with this 

 species in the Adirondacks, was informed by her that "it 

 seems to have a great fondness for decaying wood, and 

 I have often seen a whole row perched like birds along 

 a crumbling log." They have also been found growing 

 among the crags high up on the mountain sides, and in 

 such situations, further north, spring up among the 

 reindeer moss. 



For several months past it has been the custom to 

 select a zoological picture for the current flower article 

 of the issue of American Forestry. In no instance has 

 the subject so chosen had any special connection with the 

 main feature of the contribution in which it has appeared 

 although it might have. Often they have been animal 

 forms that the collectors of flowers afield are likely to 



no useful purpose. Our subject for this issue is an 

 immature specimen of the well-known Red-tailed Hawk 

 (Buteo b. borealis), a falconine species occurring in the 

 greater part of eastern North America. This elegant 

 hawk, when adult, has a tail of a bright rust-red, while 



OFTEN WE FIND THE YELLOW LADY-SLIPPER GROWING IN 

 LITTLE GROUPS (C. pubescent). 



Fig. 8 Five perfect plants of the Larger Yellow Lady-slipper (C. 

 pubescent), giving a very excellent idea of this species as a whole, apart 

 from a view of the roots. 



meet with on their excursions for specimens, and so they 

 have, in this way, been useful and instructive. Many of 

 the subjects have been well spoken of by readers of 

 American Forestry ; and it has had the advantage of 

 using material brought in, which might otherwise meet 



WE HAVE ALBINOES AMONG FLOWERS AS WELL AS AMONG 



ANIMALS 



Fig. 10 This rare specimen was found near Hyattsville, Maryland, by 

 Miss Boone, of the U. S. National Museum; it is C. acaule bearing an 

 albino flower. 



in the subadult it is grayish, and banded across with some 

 seven or eight narrow bars of blackish. The red tail of 

 the parent bird is responsible for its vernacular name; 

 however, it also has received other names, as the Hen 

 Hawk, Chicken Hawk, White-breasted Chicken Hawk, 

 Red-tailed Buzzard, Red Hawk, Buzzard Hawk, and 

 Eastern Red-tail. Such a confusion of names would 

 certainly put any one at sea in the matter of the identi- 

 fication, were it not that its scientific name, given above, 

 stands all over the world. This splendid hawk is of a 

 dark brown plumage above, mixed with soiled white and 

 stone gray. On the under parts, posteriorly, it is grayish 

 or pure white, tinged with buf fy as we pass up either side 

 of the breast. Abdominally, it is streaked with a rich 

 brown, approaching blackish. The bill and irides of the 



