Adult Female, Plate XXXII. Fig. 2.
The female differs very little in external appearance from the male, and is nearly of the same dimensions.
The Great Magnolia.
Magnolia grandiflora, Wild. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1255.
This plant has already been described at p. 28, the ripe fruit having been represented in Plate V.
THE AMERICAN GOLDFINCH.
Fringilla tristis, Linn.
PLATE XXXIII. Male and Female.
This species merely passes over the State of Louisiana in the beginning of January, and at that season is seen there for only a few days, alighting on the highest tops of trees near water-courses, in small groups of eight or ten, males and females together. They feed at that period on the opening buds of Maples, and others that are equally tender and juicy. In the month of November they are again seen moving southwards, and for a few days only.
A few breed in Kentucky and the State of Ohio, but the Middle Districts are their principal places of resort during summer, although they extend their migrations to a high latitude. They arrive in the State of New York about the middle of April; and as they become very abundant in that State during the summer, I shall describe their habits as observed there.