Adult Female. Plate LXVII. Fig. 3.
The adult female resembles the male of the first spring in colouring. The bill is lighter; there is a broad streak of pale brown from the bill over each eye; the wing-coverts are less broadly margined, and the lesser wing-coverts are merely tinged with red. The size is greatly inferior to that of the adult male, the length being only 7½ inches.
Young Bird. Plate LXVII. Fig. 4.
The young is similar to the female, lighter on the cheeks and throat, and having merely a slight tinge of red on the lesser wing-coverts.
The Red Maple or Swamp Maple.
Acer rubrum, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. iv. p. 984. Pursh, Flor. Amer. vol. i. p. 266. Mich. Abr. Forest. de l'Amer. Sept. vol. ii. p. 210, Pl. 14.—Octandria Monogynia, Linn. Acerinæ, Juss.
This species having been represented in Plate LXVII in seed, has already been described at [p. 287].
THE REPUBLICAN OR CLIFF SWALLOW.
Hirundo fulva, Vieill.
PLATE LXVIII. Male, Female, and Nests.