40 THE CAROLINA TURTLE-DOVE. 



Feet carmine-purple; claws dusky. Crown of the head, and upper part of 

 the neck, bright greenish-blue; the rest of the upper parts, including the 

 wing-coverts, light yellowish-brown, tinged with light blue, of which colour 

 are the edges of the wings, and the outer webs of the quills towards the 

 base. Some of the proximal wing-coverts spotted with black. Forehead 

 and sides of the head brownish-yellow, which colour predominates on the 

 under parts, the breast and neck tinged with blue, and the abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts paler. Quills dusky, margined externally with whitish, 

 the last secondaries light brown and spotted with black. The two middle 

 tail-feathers, and the outer webs of the next five on each side like the back; 

 all the feathers, excepting the middle ones, have a spot of black about an 

 inch from their extremity, the space between which and the base is bright 

 greenish-blue, that beyond it being paler and tinged with brown, excepting 

 in the three outer feathers, where it is white, as is the outer web of the 

 outermost. 



Length 12 inches, extent of wings 17; bill along the ridge T 7 2, along the 

 gapf. 



Adult Female. 



The female is somewhat duller in the tints of the plumage; the bright 

 blue of the head is wanting, that part being coloured like the back; the neck 

 and breast have less blue, and the white of the tail is less pure. 



Length 11 inches, extent of wings 15^; bill as in the male. 



The White-flowered Stuartia. 



Stuartia Malacodendron, Willd. Sp. PL, vol. iii. p. 840.— Stuartia virginica, Pursh, 

 Fl. Amer., vol. ii. p. 451. — Monadelpiiia Polyandria, Linn. 



A small tree, with smooth spreading branches; ovate-acute leaves, gene- 

 rally entire at the margins; axillar flowers, which are solitary, or two 

 together; large white corollas, of five rounded petals, and reddish-purple 

 stamina. The leaves vary in being sometimes serrated, and more or less 

 downy. It flowers from June to September. 



