170 ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. 



however, being spotted with black. Lower neck and middle of the breast 

 of a bright carmine tint ; lower wing coverts white, tinged with carmine. 

 Length 7| inches, extent of wings 13 ; bill along the back {^^, along 

 the edge j% ; tarsus ji. 



Adult Female. Plate CXXVII. Fig. 2. 



The female differs greatly from the male in external appearance. The 

 bill brown above, paler beneath ; iris hazel ; feet as in the male. The ge- 

 neral colour of the plumage above is olivaceous brown, spotted with 

 brownish-black, the central part of each feather being of the latter colour. 

 On the head is a central longitudinal band of pale yellowish-grey, spotted 

 with dark brown, then on each side, a dark brown band, and above the 

 eye a white one ; a brown band from the bill to the eye and beyond it, 

 and under this a whitish band. There are two white bands on the wings 

 as in the male, but narrower and duller. The quills and tail are brown. 

 The lower parts light brownish-yellow, fading behind into white; the 

 fore neck, breast, and sides, marked with small longitudinal spots or streaks 

 of dark-brown. The lower wing-coverts very slightly tinged with rose- 

 colour. 



Young Male in autumn. Plate CXXVIL Fig. 3. 



After the first moult, the young male resembles the female, but al- 

 ready shews the rosy tints both on the breast, and on the under wing- 

 coverts. 



Young in first plumage. Plate CXXVIL Fig. 4. 

 In this state also the young resemble the female. 



The Ground Hemlock. 



Taxus canadensis, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. iv. p. 856. Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. vol. ii. 



p, 647.— Dl.ICIA MONADELPHIA. CoNIFER^E, JuSS. 



The Ground Hemlock, or Canadian Yew, is abundant on the decUvi- 

 ties of the mountains from Maryland to Maine. It is a low tree, or ra- 

 ther bush, often almost prostrate, and frequently hanging from the rocks. 

 The leaves are linear, distichous, revolute at the margin. The berrie.s, 

 which are oblong or globular, and of a pale red colour, are eatable. 



