28 THE BLACK-POLL WOOD-WARBLER. 



The Strawberry Tree. 

 Euonymus Americanus, Willd. Sp. PL, vol. i. p. 1132. Pursck, Fl. Amer., vol. i. p. 168. 



This beautiful shrub, which attains a height of five or six feet, is common 

 in most parts of the United States, growing in low or swampy ground, and 

 in shady places, is characterized by having the branches quadrangular, the 

 leaves subsessile, elliptico-lanceolate, acute, and serrate. The fruit is large, 

 round, tuberculate, of a scarlet colour, and very ornamental. 



THE BLACK-POLL WOOD- WARBLER. 



SvLVICOLA STRIATA, Lath. 



PLATE LXXVIIL— Male and Female. 



No sooner had the Ripley come to an anchor in the curious harbour of 

 Labrador, known by the name of Little Macatina, than my party and myself 

 sought the shore; — but before I proceed, let me describe this singular place. 

 It was the middle of July, the weather was mild and pleasant, our vessel 

 made her way under a smart breeze through a very narrow passage, beyond 

 which we found ourselves in a small circular basin of water, having an extent 

 of seven or eight acres. It was so surrounded by high, abrupt, and rugged 

 rocks, that, as I glanced around, I could find no apter comparison for our 

 situation than that of a nut-shell in the bottom of a basin. The dark shadows 

 that overspread the waters, and the mournful silence of the surrounding 

 desert, sombred our otherwise glad feelings into a state of awe. The scenery 

 was grand and melancholy. On one side, hung over our heads, in stupendous 

 masses, a rock several hundred feet high, the fissures of which might to some 

 have looked like the mouths of some huge undefined monster. Here and 

 there a few dwarf-pines were stuck as if by magic to this enormous mass of 

 granite; in a gap of the cliff the brood of a pair of grim Ravens shrunk from 

 our sight, and the Gulls, one after another, began to wend their way over- 

 head towards the middle of the quiet pool, as the furling of the sails was 

 accompanied by the glad cries of the sailors. The remarkable land-beacons 

 erected in that country to guide vessels into the harbour, looked like so many 

 figures of gigantic stature formed from the large blocks that lay on every hill 

 around. A low valley, in which meandered a rivulet, opened at a distance 



