28 BONAPARTE'S FLY-CATCHER. 



ed by the frontal feathers. Head and neck moderate. Eyes large. 

 Body slender. Legs of ordinary size ; tarsus a little longer than the 

 middle toe ; inner toe a little united at the base ; claws compressed, 

 acute, arched. 



Plumage ordinary, blended. Wings rather long, somewhat acute, 

 second primary longest. Tail rather long, nearly even, straight. Basi- 

 rostral feathers bristly and directed outwards. 



Bill brown above, yellowish beneath, orbits yellow. Iris deep brown. 

 Feet and claws flesh-colour. The upper parts of a light greyish-blue, 

 the quills dusky, their outer webs blue, the two first margined with 

 white. Under parts and forehead ochre-yeUow, under tail-coverts whitish ; 

 a few dark spots on the upper part of the breast. 



Length 5^ inches ; bill along the ridge ^^^ > along the gap | ; tarsus ^. 



The Great Magnolia. 



MAGNOiiiA GBANDiFLOHA, Wild. Sp. PI. vol. u. p. 1255. Pursh, Flor. Amer. 

 vol. ii. p. 380. Mich. Arbr. Forest, de I'Ainer. Sept. voL iii. p. 71. PI. i 



POiYANDRIA POLYGYNIA, Linn. MaGNOI-IjE, JllSS. 



L. . The magnificent tree, of which a twig, with a cone of ripe fruit, is re- 

 presented in the plate, attains a height of a hundred feet or even more. 

 .The bright red bodies are the seeds, suspended by a filament for some 

 time after the capsules have burst. The trunk is often very straight, 

 from two to four feet in diameter at the base, with a greyish smooth 

 bark. The leaves which remain during the winter are stiff and leathery, 

 smooth, elliptical, tapering at the base. The flowers are white, and 

 ^even or eight inches in diameter. It is known by the names of Large 

 Magnolia, Big Laurel and Bay-tree, and occurs abundantly in some 

 parts of Carolina, Georgia, the Floridas and Louisiana. 



