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tip, which is slightly declinate and notched ; lower mandible ascending 

 in its dorsal outline. Nostrils basal, lateral, elliptical, half closed above 

 by a membrane. The general form slender. Feet of ordinary length ; 

 tarsus slender, compressed ; toes free ; claws of the fore toes arched, com- 

 pressed, acute, of the hind toe very long, subulate-compressed, nearly 

 straight. 



Plumage soft, blended. Wings of ordinary length, first, second, and 

 third quills longest, the secondaries notched at the tip. Tail long, emar- 

 ginate. 



Bill dark brown, the under mandible orange at the base. Iris hazel. 

 Feet brownish-black. The general colour of the upper parts is dull 

 olive-brown ; a brownish- white line over the eye : auricular coverts 

 blackish. Under parts pale yellowish-grey ; an obscure lunule of brown- 

 ish-black on the fore neck, the lower part of which, and the sides, are 

 streaked with dark brown, and tinged with reddish-brown. 



Length 65 inches, bill along the ridge |, along the gap | ; tarsus ^, 

 I, hind toe |. 



middle toe |, hind toe - 



Phlox subulata, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. i. p. 842. Pursh, Fl. Amer. vol. i. p. 151 



Pentandria Monogynia, Linn. Polemonia, Jms. 



Csespitose, pubescent ; leaves linear, pungent, ciliate ; corymbs few- 

 flowered ; pedicels trifid ; divisions of the corolla wedge-shaped, emargi- 

 nate ; teeth of the calyx subulate, scarcely shorter than the tube of the 

 corolla. The flowers are pink, with a purple star in the centre. It grows 

 in rocky places, and on barren, gravelly ground, flowering through the 

 summer. ; 



