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The female has the bill and feet coloured as in the male. The upper parts 

 are gold-green, the head inclining to brown; the wings as in the male; the 

 tail feathers reddish-orange at the base, brownish-black toward the end, the 

 tip white. The lower parts are white, tinged with rufous, of which colour, 

 especially, are the sides; the throat marked with roundish spots of metallic 

 greenish-red. 



Length to end of tail 3f| inches; bill along the ridge -ff; wing from 

 flexure l|f ; tail lyf . 



The above descriptions are from two individuals shot by Mr. Townsenb 

 on the "Columbia river, 30th May, 1835." A "young male, Columbia 

 river, 29th May, 1835," resembles the female as above described, differing 

 only in having the metallic spots on the throat larger. A "young female, 

 Columbia river, June 10th, 1835," differs from the adult only in wanting the 

 metallic spots on the throat, which is spotted with greenish-brown. 



Cleome heptaphylla. 



The beautiful plant represented in the plate belongs to Tetradynamia 

 Siliquosa of the Linnsean arrangement, and to the genus Cleome, character- 

 ized by having three nectariferous glandules at each corner of the calyx, the 

 lower excepted; all the petals ascending; the germen stipitate; the siliqua 

 unilocular, two-valved. The species, C. heptaphylla, is distinguished by its 

 septenate leaves, of which the leaflets are lanceolate, acuminate, and of a 

 deep green colour. It grows in South Carolina and Georgia. 



