Bill lead-colour above, flesh-colour beneath. Iris dark hazel. Feet lead-colour. The general colour of the plumage above is pale olive-green, tinged with ash on the neck and shoulders. A white line over the eye; space beneath it and the under parts generally of the same colour, the sides tinged with pale greenish-yellow. Quills and their coverts dark-brown, margined with pale olive-green. Tail similarly edged.
Length 5¼ inches, extent of wings 8½; bill along the ridge 4⁄12, along the edge 6⁄12; tarsus 8⁄12.
Adult Female. Plate CXVIII. Fig. 2.
The Female, which is slightly smaller, resembles the male in colouring.
The Swamp Magnolia.
Magnolia glauca, Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p. 1256.—Pursh, Flor. Amer. Sept. vol. ii. p. 381.—Mich. Arbr. Forest. de l'Amer. Septentr. vol. iii. p. 78. pl. 2.—Polyandria Polygynia, Linn. Magnoliæ, Juss.
The Swamp Magnolia is abundant in all marshy places from Louisiana to Connecticut, growing in groves in and around the swamps. It seldom exceeds twenty feet in height, and is more usually eight or ten. The flowers have an agreeable odour, but are of short duration, although the tree continues blooming for several months. It is not unfrequent to find it, in the Southern States, in flower during autumn. The species is characterized by its ovate leaves, which are glaucous beneath, and its obovate petals, narrowed at the base. It bears different names in the different States, such as Swamp Laurel, Swamp Sassafras, Sweet Bay, White Bay, &c.
THE YELLOW-THROATED FLYCATCHER, OR VIREO.
Vireo flavifrons, Vieill.
PLATE CXIX. Male.