WORM-EATING WARBLER. 179 



Bill blackish-brown above, greenish-grey beneath. Iris hazel. Feet 

 flesh-colour. General colour of the upper parts deep green, tinged with 

 brown. Head and lower parts light brownish-yellow, the former with 

 four longitudinal black bands, of which one on each side proceeds from 

 the middle of the upper mandible, the other from the inferior angle of its 

 base. The lower part of the neck anteriorly, and the fore part of the 

 breast are more yellow than the rest of the under parts ; the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts nearly white. 



Length 5J inches, extent of wings 8^ ; bill along the ridge -^^, along 

 the gap I ; tarsus f , middle toe £. 



Adult Female. Plate XXXIV. Fig. 2. 



The female hardly differs from the male in external appearance. 



The American Poke-weed. 



PHYTOtACCA DECANDRA, Willd. Sp. PL voL i. p. 322. Pursh, FL Amer. vol. i. p. 324. 

 — Decandria Decagyxia, i/«Vm. Atrivlices, Juss. 



This species is distinguished by its elliptico-lanceolate leaves, and de- 

 candrous flowers, the other species differing in the number of stamina 

 and one of them being dioecious. The berries, which are nearly globu- 

 lar, are disposed in an elongated, pendulous raceme, and are of a purphsh- 

 black colour. The flowers are white, their peduncles, partial and gene- 

 ral, of a bright caniiine-purple colour. 



