Length 4½ inches, extent of wings 8; bill along the ridge 5⁄12, along the gap 7⁄12; tarsus ⅔, middle toe 7⁄12.
Adult Female. Plate XLVIII. Fig. 2.
The female differs from the male, chiefly in having the colours paler.
The Bear-berry.
Ilex Dahoon, Mich. Fl. Amer. vol ii. p. 228. Pursh, Fl. Amer. vol. i. p. 117.—Tetrandria Tetragynia, Linn. Rhamni, Juss.
This species of Holly is distinguished by its elliptico-lanceolate leaves, which are thick, leathery, shining, and reflected at the margin, and its corymboso-paniculate, lateral and terminal peduncles. The berries are globular and bright red.
THE BLUE-GREEN WARBLER.
Sylvia rara, Wils.
PLATE XLIX. Male.
The Blue-green Warbler so resembles the young of the Azure Warbler, that were not the form of its bill, and some of its habits, considerably different, I should be tempted to consider it a mere variety of that bird. It is equally rare in the Middle Districts, where I have shot only a few, and these in the dark recesses of the Great Pine Swamp.