ROSCOES YELLOW-THROAT. 125 



Sylvia Roscoe. 



Adult Male. Plate XXIV. 



Bill of ordinary length, tapering, slender, nearly straight, acute. 

 Nostrils basal, lateral, elliptical, half-closed by a membrane. Head and 

 neck of ordinary size, the latter short. Body rather short. Feet of or- 

 dinary length, slender ; tarsus scarcely longer than the middle toe, covered 

 anteriorly with a few scutella, the uppermost long ; toes scutellate above, 

 the inner free, the hind toe of moderate size ; claws slender, compressed, 

 acute, arched. 



Plumage loose, blended. Wings very short, the first quill longest. 

 Tail rounded. 



Bill dark flesh-colour, brown at the tip. Iris light brown. Feet flesh- 

 colour. General colour of the upper parts very dark olive, the feathers 

 edged with lighter. The inner webs of the quills dark brown. A 

 slender white streak over the eye and close to it ; a broad band of black 

 from the eye downwards. 



Length 5^ inches, extent of wings 6l ; bill along the ridge -^^, along 

 the gap I ; tarsus i. 



The Swamp Oak. 



QuERCus AQiiATiCA, Water Oak, MicA. Arb. Forest. voL ii. p. 90. PL 17 Mo- 



NCECIA Pol.YANDRlA, Linll. AMENTACEiE, JuSS. 



Leaves oblongo-cuneate, tapering at the base, roimded or apiculate, 

 sometimes three-lobed. 



