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Bill reddish-brown or cinnamon-colour. Iris chestnut. Feet pale 

 yellowish-brown. Upper part of the head chestnut ; anterior portion of 

 the back and scapulars of the same tint, but marked with blackish-brown 

 spots, the middle part of each feather being of that colour ; sides of the 

 neck pale bluish-grey, and a line of the same over the eye ; rump and tail 

 yellowish-grey, the inner webs of the latter light-brown ; quills and co- 

 verts blackish-brown, margined with whitish, the two rows of coverts 

 slightly tipped with brownish-white ; the under parts are greyish-white ; 

 the sides of the neck and fore part of the breast tinged with chestnut. 



Length 6 inches^ extent of Avings 8 ; bill along the back j, along the 

 edge ^%. 



The Female is rather less, and somewhat duller beneath, but in other 

 respects is precisely similar. 



Calopogon pulchellus, Brown — Cymbidium pulchellum, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. 

 iv. p. 105. Pursh, FL Amer. Sept. vol. ii. p. 592. — Gynandria Monandria, 

 Linn. Orchide^, Juss. 



Root tuberous, of an oblong form ; radical leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 nerved ; scape few-flowered ; lip at the back clawed, the inside bearded ; 

 five distinct petals of a light purplish-red. It grows in sandy soils 

 from Maine to the Floridas ; I have not observed it in the more Southern 

 or Western States. 



The Dwarf Huckle-berry. 



Vaccinium tenellum, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 353. Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. 

 vol. i. p. 289 Decandria Monogynia, Linn. Eric^, Juss. 



The branches angular, green ; leaves sessile, ovato-lanceolate, mucro- 

 nate, serrulate, glossy on both sides ; flowers in sessile clusters ; corolla 

 ovate. This plant grows in most of the lands of the Middle and Eastern 

 Districts, both in woods and in open places. Its berries are eaten by 

 various birds, as well as by children. 



