RUFF-NECKED HUMMING-BIRD. 
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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 inches ; bill along the ridge ; wing from 
flexure Iff ; tail 1^}. 
The above descriptions are from two individuals shot by Mr. Townsend 
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 ; thegermen stipitate ; thesiliqua 
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. 
