454 WOOD WREN. 



of the second, which is much shorter than the third ; the fourth and fifth 

 longest. Tail rather long, broad, graduated, of twelve rounded feathers. 



Bill dusky brown above, lower mandible brownish-yellow, the tip 

 dusky. Iris hazel. Feet flesh-colour, tinged with brown. The general 

 colour of the upper parts is dark reddish-brown, duller, and tinged with 

 grey on the head, indistinctly barred with dark brown ; wings and tail 

 undulatingly banded with dark brown, the edges of the outer primaries 

 lighter. The under parts are pale brownish-grey, faintly barred on the 

 fore-neck, breast, and sides, the under tail-coverts distinctly barred. 



Length 4|, extent of wings 6/^ ; bill along the ridge ^|, along the 

 edge ^5 ; tarsus /j. 



This species is most intimately alhed to the House Wren, from which 

 it can hardly be distinguished in description, the colours being nearly the 

 same in both. The present species, however, is considerably larger, wants 

 the light coloured line over the eye which is conspicuous in the House 

 Wren, and has the tail much more graduated. 



Smilacina borealis, Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept vol. L p. 233 — Hexandria Mono- 

 GYNIA, Linn. 



Leaves elliptico-obovate, ciliated ; the scape pubescent, with a corym- 

 bose umbel. The flowers are large, and of a greenish-yellow colour ; the 

 fruit roundish, of a beautiful deep blue. It is extremely abundant in 

 the dark woods of Maine, growing in moist places. 



Arbutus Uva-ursi, Willd. Sp. PI. voL ii. p. 618 — Decandria Monogynia, Linn. 



This small creeping plant grows in pine barrens, and in rocky and 

 mountainous places in the Northern and Eastern States. The berries are 

 scarlet, dry and unpalatable. 



