558 RUFF-NECKED HUMMING BIRD. 
The Female has the bill and feet coloured as in the male. The 
upper parts are gold-green, the head inclining to brown; the wings as 
in the male; the tail-feathers reddish-orange at the base, brownish- 
black toward the end, the tip white. The lower parts are white, 
tinged with rufous, of which colour, especially, are the sides; the throat 
marked with roundish spots of metallic greenish-red. 
Length to end of tail 374 inches; bill along the ridge #; wing 
from flexure 1}2; tail 144. 
The above descriptions are from two individuals shot by Dr 
Townsend on the “Columbia River, 30th May 1835.” A “young 
male, Columbia River, 29th May 1835,” resembles the female as above 
described, differing only in having the metallic spots on the throat 
larger. A “young female, Columbia River, June 10th 1835,” differs 
from the adult only in wanting the metallic spots on the throat, which 
is spotted with greenish-brown. 
CLEOME HEPTAPHYLLA. 
The beautiful plant represented in the plate belongs to Tetradyna- 
mia Siliquosa of the Linnean arrangement, and to the genus Cleome, 
characterized by having three nectariferous glandules at each corner 
of the calyx, the lower excepted ; all the petals ascending; the ger- 
men stipitate; the siliqua unilocular, two-valved. The species, C. 
heptaphylla, is distinguished by its septenate leaves, of which the leaf- 
lets are lanceolate, acuminate, and of a deep green colour. It grows 
in South Carolina and Georgia. 
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