156 THE WHITE-THROATED FINCH. 



each eye, margined by a narrow black stripe extending from the eye down 

 the neck. Upper part of the back, and the lesser wing-coverts, bright bay, 

 variegated with black; lower back and tail-coverts brownish-grey. Quills 

 and large -coA^erts blackish, margined with bay, the latter, as well as the next 

 series, tipped with white, forming two conspicuous bands on the wing. Tail 

 dusky brown. Throat white; sides and fore-part of the neck and breast 

 bluish-grey; the rest of the under parts greyish-white. 



Length 6^ inches, extent of wings 9; bill ^ along the ridge, ^ along the 

 gap; tarsus H, middle toe 1. 



Adult Female. 



In the female, the colours are similarly arranged, but much duller, the 

 bright bay of the male being changed into reddish-brown, the black into 

 dark brown, and the white into greyish-white. The white streak above the 

 eye is narrower, shorter, and anteriorly less yellow, the greyish-blue of the 

 breast paler, and the white spot on the throat less denned. 



Length 6? inches, extent of wings S-|; bill ^ along the ridge, ^ along the 

 gap. 



Dog-wood. 



Cornus Florida, Willd., Sp. Plant., vol. i. p. 661. Mickaux, Abr. Forest, de l'Amer. 

 Sept. t. iii. p. 138, PI. iii. Pursch, Flora Americ, p. 108.— Tetrandria Monogynia, 

 Linn. — Caprifolia, Juss. 



A beautiful small tree, generally about twenty feet in height, with very 

 hard wood; dark grey bark, cracked into squarish compartments; ovate- 

 elliptical, acuminate leaves, which are light green above, whitish beneath; 

 large, obcordate involucral leaves; and bright-red oval berries. 



