Bill black above. Iris dark-brown. Legs flesh-coloured. The general colour of the plumage above is a rich olive-green, the quills and tail-feathers margined with paler; at the base of the primary quills a white spot, part of which is apparent beyond the primary coverts. A yellowish-white line over the eye, and a spot of the same beneath it. Cheeks and sides of the neck olivaceous. The under parts ochre-yellow, tinged with brown below the wings.
Length 5½ inches, extent of wings 7½; bill along the ridge 4⁄12, along the edge ½; tarsus ¾.
Adult Female. Plate CXLVIII. Fig. 2.
The Female resembles the male, but is paler in its tints.
Hobble Bush.
Viburnum lantanoides, Mich. Fl. Amer. vol. i. p. 179. Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. vol. i. p. 202.—Pentandria Monogynia, Linn.
This species, which grows in the woods, from Canada to Virginia, is characterized by its large suborbicular, subcordate, unequally serrate, acute leaves, its dense cymes, and ovate berries, which are at first red, but ultimately black.
THE SHARP-TAILED FINCH.
Fringilla caudacuta, Wils.
PLATE CXLIX. Male, Female, and Nest.