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Adult Female. 



The general colour above is light brownish-green, the sides of the head 

 and the under parts generally brownish-yellow; larger wing-coverts dusky, 

 edged with yellow; quills deep brown, externally margined with yellowish- 

 red; tail-feathers of the same colour. The bill, eyes and legs are of the same 

 tints as in the male. 



Dimensions nearly the same. 



Young Male. 



Dull vermilion, spotted with dull green. 



The palate is ascending, concave in the middle, with two ridges, and a 

 small soft prominence in front; the upper mandible has three ridges beneath, 

 of which the lateral are broader. The posterior aperture of the nares is 

 linear, and papillate on the edges. The tongue is 7 twelfths long, some- 

 what triangular, sagittate and papillate at the base, fleshy and convex above, 

 the point horny, thin-edged and lacerated. The width of the mouth is 5^- 

 twelfths. The oesophagus is 2 inches 10 twelfths long, its greatest width 4 

 twelfths. The stomach is very small, broadly elliptical, 5J twelfths long, 

 5 twelfths in breadth; its lateral muscles rather small; the epithelium thin, 

 tough, and longitudinally rugous. Intestine 7^ inches long, from 2 twelfths 

 to 1 twelfth in breadth; coeca extremely small, scarcely distinct from the 

 intestine. The trachea is 2 inches long, about 1 twelfth in breadth; its rings 

 about 75. Bronchial half rings about 15. The muscles are as usual; the 

 inferior laryngeal very small. Salivary glands very slender, extending to 

 behind the articulation of the lower jaw. 



The Wild Muscadine. 



Vitis rotundifolia, Mich., Flor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 231. Pursch, Flor. Amer., vol. i. p. 

 169. — Pkntandria Monogynia, Linn. — Vites, Juss. 



Leaves between heart-shaped and kidney-shaped, nearly equally toothed, 

 shining on both sides. 



