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large coverts margined and tipped with white. The lesser coverts are 

 olivaceous, the tail destitute of black, and the under parts paler than in 

 the adult, without any approach to the vivid orange tints displayed on it. 

 Length 7^ inches. 



The Tulip-Tree. 



LiRioDENDRON TTjLiPiFEKA, Willd. Sp. Plant, vol. ii. p. 1254. Pursh. Flora Ame- 



ric. p. 332. Mich. Abr. Forest, de I'Amer. Sept. t. iii. p. 202, PL v Polyan- 



DRIA PoLYGYNiA, Linn, MagnolijE, Juss. 



This tree is one of the most beautiful of those indigenous to the United 

 States, and attains a height of seventy, eighty, or even a hundred feet. 

 The flowers are yellow and bright red, mixed with green, and upwards 

 of three inches in diameter. The leaves are ovate at the base, truncato- 

 bilobate at the end, with one or two lobes on each side, all the lobes acu- 

 minate. It is generally distributed, but prefers rich soils. Its bark is 

 smooth on the branches, cracked and fissured on the stems. The wood 

 is yellow, hard, but easily wrought, and is employed for numerous pur- 

 poses, particularly in the construction of houses, and for charcoal. The 

 Indians often form their canoes of it, for which purpose it is well adapted, 

 the trunk being of great length and diameter, and the wood light. In 

 different parts of the United States, it receives the names of Poplar, White 

 Wood, and Cane Wood. 



