402 GREAT CAROLINA WREN. 



sus longer than the middle toe, compressed, anteriorly scutate, posterior- 

 ly edged ; toes, scutellate above, inferiorly granulate ; second and fourth 

 nearly equal, the hind toe almost as long as the middle one, third and 

 fourth united as far as the second joint ; claws long, slender, acute, ar- 

 cuate, much compressed. 



Plumage soft, lax, and tufty. Wings short, very convex, broad and 

 rounded, the first quill very short, the fourth longest. Tail rather long, 

 curved downwards, much rounded, of twelve narrowish, rounded feathers. 

 Bill wood-brown above, bluish beneath. Iris hazel. Legs flesh-co- 

 lour. The general colour of the upper part is brownish-red. A yellowish- 

 white streak over the eye, extending far down the neck, and edged above 

 with dark brown. Quills, coverts and tail barred with blackish-brown ; 

 secondary and middle coverts tipped with white ; shafts of the scapulars 

 white. Throat greyish-white, under parts reddish-buff, paler behind. 

 Under tail-coverts white, barred with blackish. 



Length 5| inches, extent of wings 11 ; bill along the ridge |, along 

 the gap j ^ ; tarsus |. 



Adult Female. Plate LXXVIII. Fig. 2. 



The female differs from the male in being lighter above, tinged with 

 grey beneath, and in wanting the white tips of the wing-coverts. 



This species and the Marsh Wren form the transition from Troglo- 

 dytes to Certhia, resembling the former in habits and colouring, and the 

 latter in the form of the bill, as well as partly in habits. 



The Dwarf Buck-eye. 



jEsculus Pavia, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 286. Pursh, Fl. Amer. vol. ii. p. 254. 



Heptandria Monogtnia, Linn. Aceka, Jiiss. 



Leaves quinate, smooth, vmequally serrated ; racemes lax ; generally 

 with ternate flowers ; corollas tetrapetalous, their connivent claws of the 

 length of the calyx ; stamens seven, shorter than the corolla. The flowers 

 are scarlet. 



