302 LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE. 



Plumage soft, blended. Long bristly feathers at the base of the bill. 

 Wings of ordinary length, curved, the second quiU longest, the first and 

 fifth equal. Tail long, graduated, of twelve rounded feathers. 



BiU black. Iris dark brown. Feet greyish-black. The general co- 

 lour of the upper parts is dark grey, of the under greyish- white, the sides 

 tinged with brown. Forehead and sides of the head included in a broad 

 black band. Wings and tail black. Base of the primaries, and tips of 

 the secondaries and six inner primaries, white. Tail-feathers, excepting 

 the four middle ones, white towards the end, the outer ones nearly all of 

 that colour. 



Length 8^ inches, extent of wings 13 ; bill along the ridge ^^, along 

 the gap nearly 1 ; tarsus 1, middle toe ^g. 



Adult Female. Plate LVII. Fig. 2. 



The female differs from the male only in being a little smaller and 

 somewhat darker and duller in the plumage. 



The Green Briar, or Round- leaved Smilax. 



Smilax rotundifolia, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. iv. p. 779. Pursh, Flor. Amer. vol. L 

 p. 250. DiCEciA Hexandria, Lmn. Asparagi, Juss. 



This species of Smilax, which is common along fences, in old fields, 

 and by the borders of woods, is characterized by its shrubby stem, rovmd 

 branches, roundish-ovate, acuminate, slightly cordate, five or seven-nerved 

 leaves, and spherical berries. It flowers in May and June. The berries 

 are of a dark purple colour. 



The Field Mouse. 



This species is found in all parts of the United States, Living in the 

 meadows and woods. It forms narrow subterranean passages, to which 

 it resorts on the least appearance of danger, but from which it is easily 

 driven, by thrusting a twig into them. 



