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THE WHITE-THROATED FINCH. 
each eye, margined by a narrow black stripe extending from the eye down 
the neck. Upper part of the back, and the lesser wing-coverts, bright bay, 
variegated with black ; lower back and tail-coverts brownish-grey. Quills 
and large coverts blackish, margined with bay, the latter, as well as the 
next series, tipped with white, forming two conspicuous bands on the wing. 
Tail dusky brown. Throat white ; sides and fore-part of the neck and 
breast bluish-grey ; the rest of the under parts greyish-white. 
Length 65 inches, extent of wings 9 ; bill r \ along the ridge, along 
the gap ; tarsus li, middle toe 1. 
Adult Female. 
In the female, the colours are similarly arranged, but much duller, the 
bright bay of the male being changed into reddish-brown, the black into 
dark brown, and the white into greyish-white. The white streak above 
the eye is narrower, shorter, and anteriorly less yellow, the greyish-blue 
of the breast paler, and the white spot on the throat less defined. 
Length 64 inches, extent of wings 82 ; bill £ along the ridge, h along 
the gap. 
Dog-wood. 
Corn us Florida, Willd., Sp. Plant., vol. i. p. 661. Michaux , Arbr. Forest, de 
l’Amer. Sept., t. iii. p. 138, PI. iii. Pursch, Flora Americ., p. 108. — Tetrandria 
Monogynia, Linn . — Caprifolia, Juss. 
A beautiful small tree, generally about twenty feet in height, with very 
hard wood ; dark grey bark, cracked into squarish compartments ; ovate- 
elliptical, acuminate leaves, which are light green above, whitish beneath ; 
large, obcordate, involucral leaves ; bright-red oval berries. 
