WHITE-THROATED SPARROW. 45 



sides and fore-part of the neck and breast bluish-grey ; the rest of the 

 under parts greyish-white. 



I^ength 65 inches, extent of wings 9 ; bill /^ along the ridge, /^ along 

 the gap ; tarsus 1|, middle toe 1. 



Adult Female. Plate VIII. Fig. 2. 

 In the female, the colours are similarly arranged, but much duller, the 

 bright bay of the male being changed into reddish-brown, the black into 

 dark brown, and the white into greyish-white. The white streak above 

 the eye is narrower, shorter, and anteriorly less yellow, the greyish-blue 

 of the breast paler, and the white spot on the throat less defined. 



Length 6| inches, extent of wings 8^ ; bill ^ along the ridge, ^ along 

 the gap. 



Dog-wood. 



Cohnus FLORIDA, Willd. Sp. Plant, vol. i. p. 661. Miehaux, Abr. Forest, de I'Amer, 

 Sept. t. iii. p. 138, PL iii. Pursh, Flora Americ. p. 108.— Tetbandria Mono- 

 GYNiA, Linn. Caphifolia, Juss. 



A beautiful small tree, generally about twenty feet in height, with 

 very hard wood ; dark grey bark, cracked into squarish compartments ; 

 ovate-elliptical, acuminate leaves, which are light green above, whitish 

 beneath ; large, obcordate involucral leaves ; and bright-red oval berries. 



