352 MARSH BLACKBIRD. 



Bill, eyes and feet, as in the adult male. The general colour of the 

 upper parts is dark-brown, the feathers edged with lighter. The shoulder 

 is scarlet, but of a lighter tint ; the second row of wing-coverts broadly 

 margined with brownish-white ; the larger coverts and quills margined 

 with reddish-white. Quills and tail brownish-black. The under parts 

 are dark greyish-brown, spotted with black. 



Adult Female. Plate LXVII. Fig. 3. 



The adult female resembles the male of the first spring in colouring. 

 The biU is lighter ; there is a broad streak of pale brown from the bill 

 over each eye ; the wing-coverts are less broadly margined, and the lesser 

 wing-coverts are merely tinged with red. The size is greatly inferior to 

 that of the adult male, the length being only 7^ inches. 



Young Bird. Plate LXVII. Fig. 4. 



The young is similar to the female, lighter on the cheeks and throat, 

 and having merely a slight tinge of red on the lesser wing-coverts. 



The Red Maple or Swamp Maple. 



Acer rubrum, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. iv. p. 984. Pursh, Flor. Amer. vol. i. p. 266. 



Mich. Abr. Forest, de I'Amer. Sept. vol. ii. p. 210, PI. 14 Octandria Mono- 



gynia, Linn. Acerin^, Juss, 



This species having been represented in Plate LXVII in seed, has 

 already been described at p. 287. 



