44a SPOTTED OR CANADA GROUS. 



Lower parts black, the feathers on the throat having a white spot near 

 the end, those of the lower and lateral parts of the neck unspotted, of the 

 breast with a broad subterminal spot, and the under tail-coverts largely 

 tipped with white. Inner wing-coverts clove-brown, the proximal and 

 axillaries tipped with white. 



Length 15| inches, extent of wings 21 1 ; bill along the back /j, along 

 the edge 1^% ; tarsus li ; weight 17 oz. 



Adult Female. CLXXVI. Fig. 2, 2. 



The Female is not much smaller. The superciliary membrane is 

 much less, but of the same colour. The upper parts are nearly of the 

 same tints, but more broadly barred ; the head, sides of the neck, fore 

 neck, and anterior part of the breast yellowish-red, barred with brownish- 

 black ; the lower parts greyish-black, barred with reddish-white. The 

 tail is minutely mottled and tipped with brownish-red. The younger fe- 

 males have more of the yeUowish-red tints than the old ones. In other 

 respects the colouring is nearly similar. 



Length 15^ inches, extent of wings 21 ; weight 150^. 



Thillium pictum, Pursh, Flora Amer. Sept. vol. i.p. 244. — Hexandria Trigynia, 

 Linn. 



This plant, as well as the other species represented, grows abundantly 

 in Maine, in all such secluded places as are frequented by the Spotted 

 Grous, which eagerly devours its berries. It has ovate acuminate leaves 

 of a light green colour, thin and undulated ; an erect peduncle ; white 

 flowers, veined with purple at the bottom, and having the petals lanceo- 

 late, recurved, nearly twice the length of the calyx. The berries are 

 ovate and of a scarlet colour. 



STREPTOP0S DisTORTUS, MicTi.YloT. Amer. vol. L p. 200. Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. 

 vol. L p. 232. — Hexandria Monogynia, Linn. 



About two feet high, with alternate, amplexicaul, ovate, acute, ribbed, 

 light green leaves ; greenish-yellow flowers, on pedicels which are dis- 

 torted in the middle ; and oval scarlet berries. 



