THE SUMMER RED-BIRD. 
225 
Adult Female. 
The general colour above is light brownish-green, the sides of the head 
and the under parts generally brownish-yellow ; larger wing-coverts dusky, 
edged with yellow ; quills deep brown, externally margined with yellowish- 
red ; tail feathers of the same colour. The bill, eyes and legs are of the 
same tints as in the male. 
Dimensions nearly the same. 
Young Male. 
Dull vermilion, spotted with dull green. 
The palate is ascending, concave in the middle, with two ridges, and a 
small soft prominence in front ; the upper mandible has three ridges beneath, 
of which the lateral are broader. The posterior aperture of the nares is 
linear, and papillate on the edges. The tongue is 7 twelfths long, some 
what triangular, sagittate and papillate at the base, fleshy and convex above, 
the point horny, thin-edged and lacerated. The width of the mouth is 54 
twelfths. The oesophagus is 2 inches 10 twelfths long, its greatest width 4 
twelfths. The stomach is very small, broadly elliptical, 54 twelfths long. 
5 twelfths in breadth ; its lateral muscles rather small ; the epithelium thin, 
tough, and longitudinally rugous. Intestine 7i inches long, from 2 twelfths 
to 1 twelfth in breadth ; coeca extremely small, scarcely distinct from the 
intestine. The trachea is 2 inches long, about 1 twelfth in breadth ; its rings 
about 75. Bronchial half rings about 15. The muscles are as usual ; the 
inferior laryngeal very small. Salivary glands very slender, extending to 
behind the articulation of the lower jaw. 
The Wild Muscadine. 
Yitis rotuxdifolia, Mich., Flor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 231. Purscli , Flor. Amer., vol. 
i. p. 169. — Pextaxdria Moxogyxia, Linn. — Vites, Piss. 
Leaves between heart-shaped and kidney-shaped, nearly equally toothed, 
shining on both sides. 
