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Lazuli finch. 
Bill light brown, tinged with blue. Iris hazel. Feet yellowish-brown. 
The general colour is light yellowish-brown, the under parts and the sides 
of the head lighter; the wings deep brown, margined with lighter. The 
female is also considerably smaller. 
The Wild Sarsaparilla. 
Schisandra coccinea, Mich., Flor. Ainer., vol. ii. p. 218. Pursch, Flor. Amer., 
vol. i. p. 212. — Pentandria Polygynia, Linn. 
A climbing shrubby plant, distinguished by its carmine-coloured flowers, 
consisting of nine sepals ; its numerous, one-seeded berries, and elliptico- 
lanceolate leaves, acute at both ends, and supported upon a long petiole. 
LAZULI FINCH. 
Spiza Amcena, Say. 
PLATE CLXXI. — Male and Female. 
The Lazuli Finch, one of the handsomest of its tribe, was added to our 
Fauna by Thomas Say, who procured it in the course of Long’s expedition 
already mentioned. A figure of the only specimen then obtained was given 
in the continuation of Wilson’s American Ornithology by the Prince of 
Musignano. It has been my good fortune to procure a fine pair from Mr. 
Townsend, who shot them on the Columbia river, on the 3rd of June, 1836, 
so that I have been enabled to represent the female, which has not hitherto 
been figured, as well as the male. That enterprising naturalist has informed 
me, that “ the Chinook Indians name this species Tilkonapaooks, and that it 
is rather a common bird on the Columbia, but is always shy and retiring in 
its habits, the female being very rarely seen. It possesses lively and pleas- 
ing powers of song, which it pours forth from the top branches of moderate- 
sized trees. Its nest, which is usually placed in the willows along the 
margins of the streams, is composed of small sticks,' fine grasses, and cow 
or buffalo hair.” 
A nest of this species presented to me by Mr. Nuttall, who found it on 
