CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER. 307 



Bill of ordinary length, nearly straight, subulato-conical, acute, near- 

 ly as deep as broad at the base, the edges acute, the gap-line slightly de- 

 flected at the base. Nostrils basal, lateral, elliptical, half-closed by a mem- 

 brane. Head of ordinary size. Neck short. Body slender. Feet of or- 

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

 riorly by a few scutella, acutely edged behind ; toes scutellate above, the 

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

 arched. 



Plumage soft, blended, tufty. Wings of ordinary length, acute, the 

 second quill longest. Tail short, shghtly notched. 



Bill light blue, blackish above. Iris hazel. Feet dusky. Forehead 

 white ; upper part of the head bright yellow. Loral space, and two lines 

 proceeding from it, one over and behind the eye, the other downwards, 

 black. Back dusky green, spotted with black, as are the lesser wing- 

 coverts, the larger broadly tipped with bright yellow, excepting those of 

 the primary quills, which are dusky. Primaries dusky, edged externally 

 with light blue, as is the tail. Under parts white ; side of the lower neck 

 and body under the wings deep chestnut. 



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

 the gap y^g ; tarsus |. 



Adult Female. Plate LIX. Fig. 2. 

 The female is considerably smaller, but is coloured nearly in the same 

 manner as the male. The chestnut patch on the sides is of less extent, and 

 the primaries are yellow, instead of blue, on their outer webs. 



The Moth Mullein. 



Verbascubi Blattaria, Willd. Sp. PL vol. i. p. 1005. Pursh, Flor. Amer. vol. i. 

 p. 142, Smith. Engl. Flor. vol. i. p. 513 Pentandria Monogynia, Linn. So- 



LANEiE, JUSS. 



A biennial plant, distinguished from the other species of the same 

 genus by its amplexicaul ovato-oblong, rugose, serrated, glabrous leaves, 

 and one-flowered solitary pedicels. The ordinary colour of the flowers is 

 yellow, but the plant represented is of a variety with larger whitish or 

 pale rose-coloured flowers. It grows in fields and by roads, and is of com- 

 mon occurrence. 



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