Length to end of tail 3 7/12 inches; bill along the ridge 7 1/2/12, along the edge of lower mandible 9 1/4/12; wing from flexure 1 7 1/4/12; tail 1 3 1/2/12; tarsus 1 1/2/12; hind toe 1 1/2/12, its claw 1 1/4/12; middle toe 2 1/4/12, its claw 1 1/2/12.
Adult Female. Plate CCCLXXIX. Fig. 3.
The Female has the bill and feet coloured as in the male. The upper parts are gold-green, the head inclining to brown; the wings as in the male; the tail-feathers reddish-orange at the base, brownish-black toward the end, the tip white. The lower parts are white, tinged with rufous, of which colour, especially, are the sides; the throat marked with roundish spots of metallic greenish-red.
Length to end of tail 3 7 1/2/12 inches; bill along the ridge 8 3/4/12; wing from flexure 1 10/12; tail 1 1 1/2/12.
The above descriptions are from two individuals shot by Dr Townsend on the “Columbia River, 30th May 1835.” A “young male, Columbia River, 29th May 1835,” resembles the female as above described, differing only in having the metallic spots on the throat larger. A “young female, Columbia River, June 10th 1835,” differs from the adult only in wanting the metallic spots on the throat, which is spotted with greenish-brown.
Cleome heptaphylla.
The beautiful plant represented in the plate belongs to Tetradynamia Siliquosa of the Linnæan arrangement, and to the genus Cleome, characterized by having three nectariferous glandules at each corner of the calyx, the lower excepted; all the petals ascending; the germen stipitate; the siliqua unilocular, two-valved. The species, C. heptaphylla, is distinguished by its septenate leaves, of which the leaflets are lanceolate, acuminate, and of a deep green colour. It grows in South Carolina and Georgia.
TENGMALM’S OWL.
Strix Tengmalmi, Gmel.
PLATE CCCLXXX. Male and Female.